Timed Interval Calculus (TIC) is a highly expressive set-based notation for specifying and reasoning about embedded real-time systems. However, it lacks mechanical proving support...
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
During the last decades, performance of available hardware resources constantly increased [15], which enabled the assignment of more and more complex tasks to software systems. As...
Jens Bruhn, Christian Niklaus, Thomas Vogel, Guido...
The Cell BE processor provides both scalable computation power and flexibility, and it is already being adopted for many computational intensive applications like aerospace, defens...
Today, critical infrastructures like the power grid are essentially physical processes controlled by computers connected by networks. They are usually as vulnerable as any other i...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Paulo Sousa, Miguel Correia...