Experiences with the use of the MSC language for complex system specifications have shown that certain extensions are necessary in order to arrive at sufficiently transparent and m...
Abstract. We describe a translation from a dialect of SDL-88 to PROMELA, the input language of the SPIN model checker. The fairly straightforward translation covers data types as w...
Abstract. It is still the case that language descriptions have lots of semantic information captured using plain (English) text. These imprecise descriptions are hardly usable for ...
Andreas Prinz, Markus Scheidgen, Merete Skjelten T...
This paper discusses the Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle (or simply the SDL), a process that Microsoft has adopted for the development of software that needs ...
The decomposition of large systems into parts is a general principle of software design. Even more, in the scope of distributed systems a partition of the whole system into distri...