Introducing Engineered Composition (EC): An Approach for Extending the Common Criteria to Better Support Composing Systems

Abstract

This paper presents an approach, called Engineered Composition (EC), for extending the Common Criteria (CC) to achieve 'seamless composability’, i.e. being able to predict that a composition of components will have the desired beneficial properties, with no uncontrollable or unpredictable side effects [12]. In the CC paradigm the components are PPs and STs and the composition is an evaluated system that reuses the components.