This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
Sun-synchronous exploration is accomplished by reasoning about sunlight: where the Sun is in the sky, where and when shadows will fall, and how much power can be obtained through ...
David Wettergreen, M. Bernardine Dias, Benjamin Sh...
Software Fault Tree Analysis (SFTA) provides a structured way to reason about the safety or reliability of a software system. As such, SFTA is widely used in missioncritical appli...
This paper describes a language and framework that allow coordinated transformations driven by invariants to be specified declaratively, as invariant rules, and applied automatic...
Yanhong A. Liu, Michael Gorbovitski, Scott D. Stol...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...