The use of component models such as Enterprise Java Beans and the CORBA Component Model (CCM) in application development is expanding rapidly. Even in real-time safety/mission-cri...
John Hatcliff, Xianghua Deng, Matthew B. Dwyer, Ge...
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,...
Secure communication over the Internet becomes an essential requirement for any value-added Internet application. The use of cryptography for secure communication brings out the r...
Modern database systems provide not only powerful data models but also complex query languages supporting powerful features such as the ability to create new database objects and ...
In this paper, we propose a new formalism, named the Timed Communicating Finite State Machine (Timed CFSM), for specifying and verifying time-critical systems. Timed CFSM preserve...