The paper targets the applicability of model-driven methodologies to the validation of complex systems and presents a case study of a mobile radio network. Validation relies on the...
The cooperation knowledge level is a new computer level specifically for multi-agent problem solvers which describes rich and explicit models of common social phenomena. A cooperat...
Security requirements strongly influence the architectural design of complex IT systems in a similar way as other non-functional requirements. Both security engineering as well a...
—Multiway Decision Graphs (MDGs) subsume Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) and extend them by a first-order formulae suitable for model checking of data path circuits. In this pap...
With the move to distributed, component based systems involving reuse of components and services, emergent, system-wide properties, including safety and security in particular, are...