Web Services are entailing a major shift of perspective in software engineering: software is used and not owned, and operation happens on machines that are out of the user control....
Marcello Bruno, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di P...
Markov chains have been used to model web usages and served as the basis for statistical testing, performance evaluation, and reliability analysis. However, most of such applicati...
Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...
In current design practice synthesis tools play a key role, letting designers to concentrate on the specificationof the system being designed by carrying out repetitive tasks such...
Boundary overflows are caused by violation of constraints, mostly limiting the range of internal values of a program, and can be provoked by an intruder to gain control of or acce...