Use cases are often perceived as an integral part of an objectoriented approach to software development, yet despite claims that objects fall naturally from the use case descripti...
Abstract. Design and development of information retrieval IR systems is a complex and expensive process. In the process of building an IR system, developers need to explore a lar...
The accurate estimation of software development effort has major implications for the management of software development in the industry. Underestimates lead to time pressures tha...
Gabriel Jarillo, Giancarlo Succi, Witold Pedrycz, ...
A model-driven reuse approach that is based on an organization’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) and on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is proposed. The framework embodying th...
Identifying the objects that constitute a software system is a critical task for any object-oriented system development and several techniques have already been introduced to tack...
The creation of a development process is a challenging task. The application, customization and refinement of generic process models into fine-grained process steps suitable for a...
Abstract. In the past five years there has been tremendous activity in rolebased access control (RBAC) models. Consensus has been achieved on a standard core RBAC model that is in ...
Abstract. We present a new model that provides clear and precise semantics for authorization. The semantics is independent from underling security mechanisms and is separate from i...
The history of the application of formal methods to cryptographic protocol analysis spans nearly twenty years, and recently has been showing signs of new maturity and consolidatio...