Developers are often unaware of, or fail to respect, the intentions behind a design due to poor communication of design intent. SCL (Structural Constraint Language) helps develope...
—Stochastic activity networks (SANs) are a stochastic generalization of Petri nets. SAN models have been used to evaluate a wide range of systems and are supported by several mod...
Secure processor architecture enables tamper-proof protection on software that addresses many difficult security problems such as reverse-engineering prevention, trusted computing...
Propositional bounded model checking has been applied successfully to verify embedded software but is limited by the increasing propositional formula size and the loss of structur...
Non-functional specifications of software components are considered an important asset in constructing dependable systems, since they enable early Quality of Service (QoS) evaluati...