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ICFEM
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Compositional Approach on Modal Specifications for Timed Systems
Abstract. On the one hand, modal specifications are classic, convenient, and expressive mathematical objects to represent interfaces of component-based systems. On the other hand, ...
Nathalie Bertrand, Axel Legay, Sophie Pinchinat, J...
ICFEM
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The VSE Refinement Method in Hets
We present the integration of refinement method of VSE verification tool, successfully used in industrial applications, in the Heterogeneous Tool Set HETS. The connection is done v...
Mihai Codescu, Bruno Langenstein, Christian Maeder...
ICFEM
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Efficient Translation of Timed-Arc Petri Nets to Networks of Timed Automata
Bounded timed-arc Petri nets with read-arcs were recently proven equivalent to networks of timed automata, though the Petri net model cannot express urgent behaviour and the descri...
Joakim Byg, Kenneth Yrke Jørgensen, Jir&iac...
ICFEM
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Graded-CTL: Satisfiability and Symbolic Model Checking
In this paper we continue the study of a strict extension of the Computation Tree Logic, called graded-CTL, recently introduced by the same authors. This new logic augments the sta...
Alessandro Ferrante, Margherita Napoli, Mimmo Pare...
HOTSWUP
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Migrating Protocols in Multi-Threaded Message-Passing Systems
Dynamic software update is a technique by which a running program can be updated with new code and data without interrupting its execution. Often we will want to preserve properti...
Austin Anderson, Julian Rathke
FLAIRS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Unit Testing for Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Researchers in commonsense, qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning (QSTR) provide flexible and intuitive methods for reasoning about vague and uncertain information including ...
Carl P. L. Schultz, Robert Amor, Hans W. Guesgen
EUROMICRO
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Stakeholders' Perception of Success: An Empirical Investigation
Different stakeholders involved in the software development may attribute success to different indicators. Analogously they may support different factors considered the root of suc...
Evgenia Egorova, Marco Torchiano, Maurizio Morisio...
ESEM
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Security of open source web applications
In an empirical study of fourteen widely used open source PHP web applications, we found that the vulnerability density of the aggregate code base decreased from 8.88 vulnerabilit...
James Walden, Maureen Doyle, Grant A. Welch, Micha...
ESEM
2009
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Productivity trends in incremental and iterative software development
In an investigating study to trace the productivity changes of a commercial software project, which uses incremental and iterative development model, we've found evidence tha...
Thomas Tan, Qi Li, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Mei He...