Good components need precise contracts. In the practice of Design by ContractTM , applications and libraries typically express, in their postconditions and class invariants, only a...
By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...
Abstract. It is generally agreed that one of the key services of componentbased systems are transactions. However, an agreement on how components should be involved in transactions...
Abstract. We define a probabilistic contract framework for the construction of component-based embedded systems, based on the theory of Interactive Markov Chains. A contract specif...