Abstract. Information systems are socio-technical systems. Their design, analysis and implementation requires appropriate languages for representing social and technical concepts. ...
With the increasing complexity of the emerging embedded real-time systems, traditional design approaches can not provide sufficient support for the development of these systems an...
Jinfeng Huang, Jeroen Voeten, Andre Ventevogel, Le...
Advances in scheduling theory have given designers of control systems greater flexibility over their choice of timing requirements. This could lead to systems becoming more respon...
We describe a novel approach to verification of software systems centered around an underlying database. Instead of applying general-purpose techniques with only partial guarantee...
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...