A dependability case is an explicit, end-to-end argument, based on concrete evidence, that a system satisfies a critical property. We report on a case study constructing a depend...
Joseph P. Near, Aleksandar Milicevic, Eunsuk Kang,...
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...
Robotic cardiac catheters have the potential to revolutionize heart surgery by extending minimally invasive techniques to complex surgical repairs inside the heart. However, cathet...
We investigate models for uplink interference in wireless systems. Our models account for the effects of outage probabilities. Such an accounting requires a nonlinear, even nonco...
Kenneth L. Clarkson, K. Georg Hampel, John D. Hobb...
Programs fail mainly for two reasons: logic errors in the code, and exception failures. Exception failures can account for up to 2/3 of system crashes [6], hence are worthy of ser...