Modern software applications ranging from enterprise to embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex, and require very high levels of dependability assurance. The most effec...
Zhenbang Chen, Zhiming Liu, Volker Stolz, Lu Yang,...
I discuss formal description techniques (FDTs) as they are applied in practice in software and system engineering. Their quality can be measured by their formality, descriptivenes...
Abstract. We demonstrate the manner in which high-level design requirements, e.g., as they correspond to the commonsensical conceptualisation of expert designers, may be formally s...
Abstract. Data warehouses (DW) main objective is to facilitating decisionmaking. Thus their development has to take into account DW project actor requirements. While much recent re...
Building open distributed systems is an even more challenging task than building distributed systems, as their components are loosely synchronised, can move, become disconnected, ...