This paper describes an experiment in formal specification and validation performed in the context of an industrial joint project. The project involved an Italian company working...
Stefania Gnesi, Diego Latella, Gabriele Lenzini, C...
For a system of distributed processes, correctness can be ensured by (statically) checking whether their composition satisfies properties of interest. In contrast, Web services a...
Yuan Gan, Marsha Chechik, Shiva Nejati, Jon Bennet...
Tasks like diagnosis, failure-modes-and-effects analysis (FMEA), and therapy proposal involve reasoning about variables and parameters deviating from some reference state. In model...
In this paper, we study the control of Composite Hybrid Machines (CHMs) subject to safety speci cations. CHMs are a fairly general class of hybrid systems modeled in modular fashi...
This paper presents a security characterisation process framework for software components and their compositions in order to address the issue of trust in component based software...