Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to main...
Security analysis methods can provide correct yet meaningless results if the assumptions underlying the model do not conform to reality. We present an approach to analyze the secur...
Thomas Heyman, Riccardo Scandariato, Wouter Joosen
Software intellectual property (SWIP) is a critical component of increasingly complex field programmable gate arrays (FPGA)-based system-on-chip (SOC) designs. As a result, develop...
Michael A. Gora, Abhranil Maiti, Patrick Schaumont
Software engineering data (such as code bases, execution traces, historical code changes, mailing lists, and bug databases) contains a wealth of information about a project's...
Propositional bounded model checking has been applied successfully to verify embedded software but is limited by the increasing propositional formula size and the loss of structur...