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USS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: New Directions for Implantable Medical Device Security
A fundamental tension exists between safety in the common case and security under adversarial conditions for wireless implantable medical devices. We propose a class of new, fail-...
Tamara Denning, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno
ICSE
1994
IEEE-ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Applying Formal Methods for Human Error Tolerant Design
Abstract. This paper describes recent work concerned with the speci cation of requirements on interactive systems and the de nition of user-level properties of such systems. A form...
Bob Fields, Peter C. Wright, Michael D. Harrison
ICNP
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Typed Abstraction of Complex Network Compositions
straction of Complex Network Compositions∗ Azer Bestavros, Adam D. Bradley, Assaf J. Kfoury, and Ibrahim Matta Department of Computer Science Boston University The heterogeneity...
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf J. Kfoury, Ibr...
QEST
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Compositional Quantitative Reasoning
Abstract. We present a compositional theory of system verification, where specifications assign real-numbered costs to systems. These costs can express a wide variety of quantita...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faell...
HASE
1997
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Automated Computation of Decomposable Synchronization Conditions
: The most important aspect of concurrent and distributed computation is the interaction between system components. Integration of components into a system requires some synchroniz...
Gilberto Matos, James M. Purtilo, Elizabeth L. Whi...