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2008

On The Discovery of Business Processes Orchestration Patterns

Authors
Rodrigues, NF; Barbosa, LS;

Publication
IEEE CONGRESS ON SERVICES 2008, PT I, PROCEEDINGS

Abstract
COORDINSPECTOR is a Software Tool aiming at extracting the coordination layer of a software system. Such a reverse engineering process provides a clear view of the actually invoked services as well as the logic behind such invocations. The analysis process is based on program slicing techniques and the generation of, System Dependence Graphs and Coordination Dependence Graphs. The tool analyzes Common Intermediate Language (CIL), the native language of the Microsoft Net Framework, thus making suitable for processing systems developed in any Net Framework compilable language. COORDINSPECTOR generates graphical representations of the coordination layer together with business process orchestrations specified in WS-BPEL 2.0.

2008

COORDINSPECTOR: a tool for extracting coordination data from legacy code

Authors
Rodrigues, NF; Barbosa, LS;

Publication
EIGHTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION, PROCEEDINGS

Abstract
More and more current software systems rely on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services typically running on different platforms and often owned by different organizations. Often, however, coordination data is deeply entangled in the code and, therefore, difficult to isolate and analyse separately. COORDINSPECTOR is a software tool which combines slicing and program analysis techniques to isolate all coordination elements from the source code of an existing application. Such a reverse engineering process provides a clear view of the actually invoked services as well as of the orchestration patterns which bind them together. The tool analyses Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code, the native language of Microsoft Net Framework. Therefore, the scope of application Of COORDINSPECTOR is quite large: potentially any piece of code developed in any of the programming languages which compiles to the Net Framework. The tool generates graphical representations of the coordination layer together and identifies the underlying business process orchestrations, rendering them as Ore specifications.

2008

A coalgebraic semantic framework for reasoning about UML sequence diagrams

Authors
Meng, S; Barbosa, LS;

Publication
Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Abstract
If, as a well-known aphorism states, modelling is for reasoning, this paper is an attempt to define and apply a formal semantics to UML sequence diagrams in order to enable rigourous reasoning about them. Actually, model transformation plays a fundamental role in the process of software development, in general, and in model driven engineering in particular. Being a de facto standard in this area, UML is no exception, even if the number and diversity of diagrams expressing UML models makes it difficult to base its semantics on a single framework. This paper builds on previous attempts to base UML semantics in a coalgebraic setting and illustrates the application of the proposed framework to reason about composition and refactoring of sequence diagrams. © 2008 IEEE.

2008

An Exercise on Transition Systems

Authors
Ribeiro, PR; Barbosa, LS; Wang, S;

Publication
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Abstract
Labelled transition systems admit different but equivalent characterizations either as relational structures or coalgebras for the powerset functor, each of them with their own merits. Notions of simulation and bisimulation, for example, are expressed in the pointfree relational calculus in a very concise and precise way. On the other hand, the coalgebraic perspective regards processes as inhabitants of a final universe and allows for an intuitive definition of the semantics of process' combinators. This paper is an exercise on such a dual characterisation. In particular, it discusses how a notion of weak bisimilarity can be lifted from the relational to the coalgebraic level, to become an effective reasoning tool on coinductively defined process algebras.

2008

Certificateless signcryption

Authors
Barbosa, M; Farshim, P;

Publication
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security, ASIACCS '08

Abstract
Certificateless cryptography inherits a solution to the certificate management problem in public-key encryption from identity-based techniques, whilst removing the secret key escrow functionality inherent to the identity-based setting. Signcryption schemes achieve confidentiality and authentication simultaneously by combining public-key encryption and digital signatures, offering better overall performance and security. In this paper, we introduce the notion of certificateless signcryption and present an efficient construction which guarantees security under insider attacks, and therefore provides forward secrecy and non-repudiation. Copyright 2008 ACM.

2008

Secure biometric authentication with improved accuracy

Authors
Barbosa, M; Brouard, T; Cauchie, S; de Sousa, SM;

Publication
INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY

Abstract
We propose a new hybrid protocol for cryptographically secure biometric authentication. The main advantages of the proposed protocol over previous solutions can be summarised as follows: (1) potential for much better accuracy using different types of biometric signals, including behavioural ones; and (2) improved user privacy, since user identities are not transmitted at any point in the protocol execution. The new protocol takes advantage of state-of-the-art identification classifiers, which provide not only better accuracy, but also the possibility to perform authentication without knowing who the user claims to be. Cryptographic security is based on the Paillier public key encryption scheme.

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