Safety is increasingly important for software based, critical systems. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a safety technique from engineering, developed for analyzing and assessing syste...
The integration of heterogeneous legacy databases requires understanding of database structure and content. We previously developed a theoretical and software infrastructure to sup...
Mark S. Schmalz, Joachim Hammer, Mingxi Wu, Oguzha...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...
Access control software must be based on a security policy model. Flaws in them may come from a lack of precision or some incoherences in the policy model or from inconsistencies ...