Abstract. UML activity diagrams have become an established notamodel control and data flow on various levels of abstraction, ranging from fine-grained descriptions of algorithms ...
One major obstacle to requirements engineering (RE) is the growing complexity of today's systems. Such a complexity can only be fficiently by powerful abstraction mechanisms a...
Parallel and distributed programming is conceptually harder to undertake and to understand than sequential programming, because a programmer often has to manage the coexistence an...
Misuse Detection systems identify evidence of attacks by searching for patterns of known attacks (signatures). A main problem in this context is the modeling and specification of a...
Modern database systems provide not only powerful data models but also complex query languages supporting powerful features such as the ability to create new database objects and ...