Role Based Access Control is only a subset of the security management and distributed systems management. Yet, the characteristics and use of the role objects in RBAC or Role Base...
I discuss formal description techniques (FDTs) as they are applied in practice in software and system engineering. Their quality can be measured by their formality, descriptivenes...
The repetitive behavior of a device or system can be described in two ways: a detailed description of one iteration of the behavior, or a summary description of the behavior over ...
For component-based systems, classical techniques for Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) estimation produce unacceptable overestimations of a components WCET. This is because softwa...
Johan Fredriksson, Thomas Nolte, Andreas Ermedahl,...
Traditionally, two alternative design design approaches have been available to engineers: top-down and bottom-up. In the top-down approach, the design process starts with specifyin...