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APSEC
2001
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Compilation of Specifications
Computer software now controls critical systems worldwide. International standards require such programs to be produced from mathematically-precise specifications, but the techniq...
Colin J. Fidge
ENTCS
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
Interface Automata with Complex Actions
Many formalisms use interleaving to model concurrency. To describe some system behaviours appropriately, we need to limit interleaving. For example, in componentbased systems, we ...
Shahram Esmaeilsabzali, Farhad Mavaddat, Nancy A. ...
JELIA
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Computing the Least Common Subsumer w.r.t. a Background Terminology
Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very e...
Franz Baader, Baris Sertkaya, Anni-Yasmin Turhan
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Towards Extreme(ly) Usable Software: Exploring Tensions Between Usability and Agile Software Development
Design is an inherently multidisciplinary endeavor. This raises the question of how to develop systems in ways that can best leverage the perspectives, practices, and knowledge ba...
Jason Chong Lee, D. Scott McCrickard
CRYPTO
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
On the Discrete Logarithm Problem on Algebraic Tori
Abstract. Using a recent idea of Gaudry and exploiting rational representations of algebraic tori, we present an index calculus type algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm pr...
Robert Granger, Frederik Vercauteren