Transformational design is aformal technique directed at design correctness. It integrates design and veriJication by the use of pre-proven behaviour preserving transformations as...
Model checking is shown to be an effective tool in validating the behavior of a fault tolerant embedded spacecraft controller. The case study presented here at by judiciously abst...
Francis Schneider, Steve M. Easterbrook, John R. C...
The use of redundant computational nodes is a widely used design tactic to improve the reliability of complex embedded systems. However, this redundancy allocation has also an effe...
Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance req...
Existing authorization mechanisms fail to provide powerful and robust tools for handling security at the scale necessary for today's Internet. These mechanisms are coming unde...