— Providing powerful and fine-grained capabilities for the analysis and management of non-functional properties is a major challenge for component-based software systems. This a...
It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
In contrast to classic train protection systems where most of the safety measures are built into the rail infrastructure, future versions of the European railway safety system ERT...
Hans Scholten, Roel Westenberg, Manfred Schoemaker
Certified code is a general mechanism for enforcing security properties. In this paradigm, untrusted mobile code carries annotations that allow a host to verify its trustworthine...
This paper explores how to characterise security properties of software components, and how to reason about their suitability for a trustworthy compositional contract. Our framewo...