Abstract. In requirements engineering use cases are employed to describe the ow of events and the occurrence of states in a future information system. Use cases consist of a set of...
Current implementations of Java make security decisions by searching the runtime call stack. These systems have attractive security properties, but they have been criticized as be...
Embedded computer systems are characterized by the presence of a dedicated processor and the software that runs on it. Power constraints are increasingly becoming the critical com...
The ODP computational viewpoint describes the functionality of a system and its environment, in terms of a configuration of objects which interact at interfaces. Computational obj...
Software component technology facilitates the costeffective development of specialized applications. Nevertheless, due to the high number of principals involved in a component-str...