Correctly specifying requirements for composite systems is essential to system safety, particularly in a distributed development environment. Goal-oriented requirements engineerin...
— Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a promising means to integrate heterogeneous systems. Services from different providers can be integrated into a composite service regardles...
Web services composition is emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of businessto-business collaborations. It allows organizations to form alliances by con...
Decomposition is used to manage system complexity, but is problematic for emergent properties such as system safety. Previously, we introduced Indirect Control Path Analysis (ICPA...
Confidentiality-preserving refinement describes a relation between a specification and an implementation that ensures that all confidentiality properties required in the specificat...