Reactive systems used in safety-critical domains demand high level of confidence. The development of these systems, which are submitted to several normative recommendations, is complex and expensive. Reactive systems can be developed by using the data-flow ...

The focus of this paper is on vulnerabilities which exist in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Cyber attacks targeting weaknesses in these systems can seriously degrade the survivability of a critical system. Detailed here is ...

Nowadays, web-based applications have become more and more popular in computer-based applications. Learning and mastering web programming environment, techniques, and methods are becoming necessary for undergraduate students in computer science. Traditional ...

The Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit is used to build and maintain HPC clusters. The OSCAR cluster installer provides a graphical user interface (GUI) "wizard" that directs the user through the installation process. This GUI ...

To meet the challenge of constructing interfaces for increasingly complex multifunctional products, designers will be attracted by the promise offered by “intelligent” systems. However, the value of such sophisticated systems must be measured ...

The TCP/IP protocol suite defines the procedures governing the movement of data within the Internet. A major component of the suite is the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which ensures data flows reliably between Internet applications. We use Coloured ...

Hypertext offers users a simple, flexible way to navigate through electronic information systems but at the potential risk of becoming lost in the network of interconnected pieces of information. A study was conducted on information retrieval using a ...

Improving the users' experience is a common goal of both software engineering and usability engineering. However, although practitioners of both disciplines collaborate in practice, development processes often rely on a sequential division of labor, ...

We present fundamental geometric data structures and algorithms offered by CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library. As geometry is ubiquitous this library is used by application developers in medical imaging, VLSI, CAD/CAM, geophysics, computer ...

Recently, both Miami University of Ohio and the Rochester Institute of Technology received NSF grants to develop undergraduate software engineering laboratories. While the general goals of the labs are similar, specific hardware and software selections ...

The architectural design decides the quality and the longevity of the software. Gross decomposition of a system into interacting components using proper abstractions for component interaction defines the modularity of the system which in turn decides ...

Object-oriented software development practices are being rapidly adopted within increasingly complex systems, including reactive, real-time and concurrent system applications. While data modeling is performed very well under current object-oriented development ...

The area of Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is rapidly emerging as a means of mitigating the complexity faced by software architects during the design and maintenance of large software systems. Unfortunately, given the substantial number ...

We have implemented an experimental test development environment (TDE) intended to raise the effectiveness of tests produced for GUI systems, and raise the productivity of the GUI system tester.The environment links a test designer, a test design library, ...