Constructing comprehensive operational models of intended system behaviour is a complex and costly task. Consequently, practitioners have adopted techniques that support increment...
for ideas, and then abstract away from these ideas to produce algorithmic processes that can create problem solutions in a bottom-up manner. We have previously described a top-dow...
m, modules, types and operations), different kinds of abstractions (functional/data, types/objects etc.) without falling into a loose collection of diagram languages. Considering a...
This paper describes the certification of smart-card applications in the framework of Common Criteria. In this framework, a smart-card application is represented by a model of its...
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal concept is proposed fo...