— Managing security projects is a delicate activity due to the evolution of attacks. In this paper, we develop a new methodology for estimating security effort based on algebraic...
Abstract. Hierarchical and recursive state machines are suitable abstract models for many software systems. In this paper we extend a model recently introduced in literature, by al...
Salvatore La Torre, Margherita Napoli, Mimmo Paren...
For decades, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have been the state-of-the-art technique for acoustic modeling despite their unrealistic independence assumptions and the very limited rep...
Multi-resolution validation of hierarchical performance models of scientific applications is critical primarily for two reasons. First, the step-by-step validation determines the c...
Three-valued models, in which properties of a system are either true, false or unknown, have recently been advocated as a better representation for reactive program abstractions g...