UML2 and SysML try to adopt techniques known from software development to systems engineering. However, the focus has been put on modeling aspects until now and quantitative perfo...
Although optimizations have been applied for a number of years to improve the performance of software, problems that have been long-standing remain, which include knowing what opt...
The most important recent development in Grid systems is the adoption of the Web services model as a basic architecture for Grid services. The result is called the Open Grid Servi...
The purpose of this work is to automate the analysis of ad hoc routing protocols in the presence of attackers. To this end, a formal model of protocol behavior is developed in whi...
A transactional workflow is composed of traditional flat transactions, and its execution has relaxed transactional atomicity. Due to different termination characteristics of trans...