Abstract. Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discu...
Abstract Model Checking is a well-known and fully automatic technique for checking software properties, usually given as temporal logic formulas on the program variables. Most of m...
A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...
This paper describes the certification of smart-card applications in the framework of Common Criteria. In this framework, a smart-card application is represented by a model of its...
Traditionally, cache coherence in large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors has been ensured by means of a distributed directory structure stored in main memory. In this way, the ...