: Man-machine systems have several desirable properties, as to user friendliness, reliability, safety, security or other global system attributes. The potential for the lack, or br...
The aim of this paper is to provide qualitative models characterizing interdependencies related failures of two critical infrastructures: the electricity infrastructure and the ass...
Zhong et al. formulated the problem of disclosing credentials (associated with privacy) for building trust in an open environment like Internet. Thus, one form of privacy-trust pr...
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is increasingly used as a signaling protocol for administrating Voice over IP (VoIP) phone calls. SIP can be configured in several ways so t...
E cient automatic model-checking algorithms for real-time systems have been obtained in recent years based on the state-region graph technique of Alur, Courcoubetis and Dill. Howe...