Caring for security at requirements engineering time is a message that has finally received some attention recently. However, it is not yet very clear how to achieve this systemat...
: E-LOTOS, a new version of the ISO standard specification language LOTOS, is currently being developed. We describe how it can be used to give a formal meaning to, and to discover...
In this paper we present a “lightweight” visual formalism that can be used to examine the state space complexity of an interface. The method can form a basis for designing, te...
Firewalls are important perimeter security mechanisms that imple-ment an organisation's network security requirements and can be notoriously difficult to configure correctly. ...
Arosha K. Bandara, Antonis C. Kakas, Emil C. Lupu,...
In summary, RDL is an intuitionistic temporal logic for the specification of requirements and design of time-dependent systems. Coverage of RDL includes a backward chaining theore...