Formal verification techniques have been playing an important role in pre-silicon validation processes. One of the most important points considered in performing formal verificati...
This material was presented in a series of lectures at fosad, a summer school on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design, at the University of Bologna Center at Bertinoro in Se...
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
Non-functional specifications of software components are considered an important asset in constructing dependable systems, since they enable early Quality of Service (QoS) evaluati...
Because they are required to support component deployment and composition, modern execution environments embody a number of common features such as dynamic linking and support for ...