Abstract. Behavioral specifications that are integrated into component interfaces are an important means for the correct construction of component-based systems. Currently, such s...
First Come First Served (FCFS) is a policy that is accepted for implementing fairness in a number of application domains such as scheduling in Operating Systems, scheduling web req...
In this paper, we present a way to think about the relative strength of security protocols using SoS, a lattice-theoretic representation of security strength. In particular, we di...
Software configuration management is one of the first requirements to achieve quality in the software process. However, these activities are very difficult to be introduced, mainl...
—Architecture-based software reliability analysis methods shall help software architects to identify critical software components and to quantify their influence on the system r...