1 Even though there has been some research on system evolution, there is no well defined vocabulary to indicate deviation of a system from desired goals. Further, there are no obje...
Reliability is an important concern for software dependability. Quantifying dependability in terms of reliability can be carried out by measuring the continuous delivery of a corr...
Abstract. This paper presents a new security architecture for protecting software confidentiality and integrity. Different from the previous process-centric systems designed for ...
A distributed software system’s deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system’s properties, which depend on various system parameters, such as network ba...
Continued growth in chip capacity has led to new methodologies stressing reuse, not only of pre-designed processing components, but even of entire pre-designed architectures. To b...