Abstract. Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discu...
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks significantly degrade service quality experienced by legitimate users by introducing long delays, excessive losses, and service interruptions. The ...
Jelena Mirkovic, Peter L. Reiher, Sonia Fahmy, Ros...
By functionally decomposing a specific algorithm (the hierarchical secure aggregation algorithm of Chan et al. [3] and Frikken et al. [7]), we uncover a useful general functionali...
Inheritance is a standard means for reuse and for interfacing with external libraries. In a multi-language software product, extending a class written in a statically-typed languag...
Designers, in the process of satisfying design requirements, generally encounter difficulties in, firstly, understanding the problem and secondly, finding a solution [Cross 1998]....