We present a symbolic framework for refinement and composition of security protocols. ework uses the notion of ideal functionalities. These are abstract systems which are secure b...
In today’s businesses, there is a trend that serviceoriented architecture (SOA) is evolving into a popular architectural paradigm for IT infrastructure. SOA allows companies’ ...
M. Brian Blake, William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Michael C...
Continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) have been used successfully to model the dependability and performability of many systems. Matrix diagrams (MDs) are known to be a space-ef...
A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
Recent work on combining CSP and B has provided ways of describing systems comprised of components described in both B (to express requirements on state) and CSP (to express intera...