Usually software is maintained by people different from those who developed it. In this context the maintenance activities are dominated by the comprehension effort. The study of ...
New embedded systems must be power-aware, not just low-power. That is, they must track their power sources and the changingpower and performance constraints imposed by the environ...
Jinfeng Liu, Pai H. Chou, Nader Bagherzadeh, Fadi ...
Modern multiuser software systems have adopted RoleBased Access Control (RBAC) for authorization management. This paper presents a formal model for RBAC policy validation and a st...
Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Robert J. Flynn, E...
Within a large, object-oriented software system it is common to partition the classes into a set of packages, which implicitly serve as a set of coarsely-grained logical design un...
To build highly available or reliable applications out of unreliable third-party components, some software-implemented fault-tolerant mechanisms are introduced to gracefully deal w...
Junguo Li, Xiangping Chen, Gang Huang, Hong Mei, F...