Security is a concern that must be taken into consideration starting from the early stages of
system development. Over the last two decades, researchers and engineers have …

Energy consumed for transferring data across the processor memory hierarchy constitutes a
large fraction of total system energy consumption, and this fraction has steadily increased …

This paper presents a conceptual framework for security engineering, with a strong focus on
security requirements elicitation and analysis. This conceptual framework establishes a …

Pipeline stalls due to conditional branches represent one of the most significant
impediments to realizing the performance potential of deeply pipelined, superscalar …

Security is an inevitable concern in today's scenario of software-based application's
pervasiveness and development practices. Researchers and practitioners frequently …

The increasing demand for complex and distributed software calls for novel software
engineering methods and techniques, to create systems able to autonomously adapt to …

In designing software systems, security is typically only one design objective among many. It
may compete with other objectives such as functionality, usability, and performance. Too …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have a great potential to support search tasks in
unstructured environments. Small, lightweight, low speed and agile UAVs, such as …

From a software engineering point of view, the agent paradigm has shown its potential for
modelling in different domains. However, moving from agent models to implementation is …

Abstract Model-driven development allows IT professionals to specify the system
functionality, organization and behavior in a logical or platform-independent manner …