The sophistication of computer malware is becoming a serious threat to the information technology infrastructure, which is the backbone of modern e-commerce systems. We, therefore...
In this paper, we propose a formal analysis approach to estimate the expected (average) data cache access time of an application across all possible program inputs. Towards this g...
Distributed real-time systems require a predictable and verifiable mechanism to control the communication medium. Current real-time communication protocols are typically independe...
The change of focus from code to models promoted by OMG's Model Driven Development raises the need for verification of nonfunctional characteristics of UML models, such as pe...
Although many recent advances have been made in hardware synthesis techniques from software programming languages such as C, the performance of synthesized hardware commonly suffe...