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Todays industrial control systems consist of tightly coupled components allowing adversaries to exploit security attack surfaces from the information technology side, and, thus, also get access to automation devices residing at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Mukund Bhole , Wolfgang Kastner , Thilo Sauter

In practice, requirements specification remains a critical challenge. The knowledge necessary to generate a specification can often be fragmented across diverse sources (e.g., meeting minutes, emails, and high-level product descriptions),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Liliana Pasquale , Azzurra Ragone , Emanuele Piemontese , Armin Amiri Darban

Conformance testing is essential for ensuring that protocol implementations comply with their specifications. However, traditional testing approaches involve manually creating numerous test cases and scripts, making the process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xikai Sun , Fan Dang , Shiqi Jiang , Jingao Xu , Kebin Liu , Xin Miao , Zihao Yang , Weichen Zhang , Haimo Lu , Yawen Zheng , Yunhao Liu

Designing usable products is important to provide a competitive edge through user satisfaction. A first step to establish or improve a usability process is to perform a process assessment. As this may be costly, an alternative for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Thaísa C. Lacerda , Christiane G. von Wangenheim , Jean C. R. Hauck

With the large language model showing human-like logical reasoning and understanding ability, whether agents based on the large language model can simulate the interaction behavior of real users, so as to build a reliable virtual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chenwei Zhang , Wenran Lu , Chunhe Ni , Hongbo Wang , Jiang Wu

Today, data guides the decision-making process of most companies. Effectively analyzing and manipulating data at scale to extract and exploit relevant knowledge is a challenging task, due to data characteristics such as its size, the rate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Arianna Dragoni , Alessandro Margara

We present in this paper a new benchmark for evaluating the performances of data warehouses. Benchmarking is useful either to system users for comparing the performances of different systems, or to system engineers for testing the effect of…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jérôme Darmont , Fadila Bentayeb , Omar Boussaïd

To successfully launch automated vehicles into the consumer market, there must be credible proof that the vehicles will operate safely. However, finding a method to validate the vehicles' safe operation is a challenging problem. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Markus Steimle , Nico Weber , Markus Maurer

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a specification technique that automatically certifies that all functional requirements are treated properly by source code, through the connection of the textual description of these requirements to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Rogerio Atem de Carvalho , Fernando Luiz de Carvalho e Silva , Rodrigo Soares Manhaes

Software systems usually operate in a dynamic context where their requirements change continuously and new requirements emerge frequently. A single requirement hardly exists in isolation: it is related to other requirements and to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Arda Goknil , Ivan Kurtev , Klaas van den Berg

Specifying and programming graphical interactions are difficult tasks, notably because designers have difficulties to express the dynamics of the interaction. This paper shows how the MDPC architecture improves the usability of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Stéphane Conversy

The availability of interaction devices has raised interest in techniques to support the user interface (UI). A UI specification describes the functions that a system provides to its users by capturing the interface details and includes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

This study was focused on the development of a web e-learning application for the database courses taken by Information Technology (IT) students at the College of Information and Communications Technology (CICT) of Bulacan State University…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Aaron Paul M. Dela Rosa , Luigi Miguel M. Villanueva , John Mardy R. San Miguel , John Emmanuel B. Quinto

Programming by Optimization tools perform automatic software configuration according to the specification supplied by a software developer. Developers specify design spaces for program components, and the onerous task of determining which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Zoltan A. Kocsis , Jerry Swan

Testing on reactive systems is a well-known laborious activity on software development due to their asynchronous interaction with the environment. In this setting model based testing has been employed when checking conformance and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Adilson Luiz Bonifacio , Arnaldo Vieira Moura

Engineering system design -- whether mechatronic, control, or embedded -- often proceeds in an ad hoc manner, with requirements left implicit and traceability from intent to parameters largely absent. Existing specification-driven and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 H. Sinan Bank , Daniel R. Herber , Thomas H. Bradley

In software applications, user models can be used to specify the profile of the typical users of the application, including personality traits, preferences, skills, etc. In theory, this would enable an adaptive application behavior that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Aaron Conrardy , Alfredo Capozucca , Jordi Cabot

The traceability of requirements in the information system design process is considered an essential property of the project, one of its quality characteristics. The point here is that traceability provides the methods of validation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Grigory Tsiperman

Responsible disclosure limitation is an iterative exercise in risk assessment and mitigation. From time to time, as disclosure risks grow and evolve and as data users' needs change, agencies must consider redesigning the disclosure…

Sequence-based specification and usage-driven statistical testing are designed for rigorous and cost-effective software development, offering a semi-formal approach to assessing the behavior of complex systems and interactions between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Seth Wolfgang , Lan Lin , Fengguang Song