Functional labels provide a simple but very reusable way for defining the functionality of a system and for making use of that knowledge. Unlike more complex functional representa...
The play-in/play-out approach suggests a new paradigm for system development using scenario-based requirements. It allows the user to develop a high level scenario-based model of t...
Hillel Kugler, Michael J. Stern, E. Jane Albert Hu...
Due to increasing design complexity new methodologies for system modeling have been established in VLSI CAD. The SystemC methodology gains a significant reduction of design cycle...
Open component architectures, such as CORBA, allow software systems to be composed of independent components. The behavior of components is described with a mixture of an interfac...
Security defense tools like firewalls and antivirus softwares are not sufficient to defend against dynamic threats to database systems. Successful attacks could not only seriously ...