The increasing demand for Distributed Systems(DS's) raised the need of a quality-assured development process, which could not only address the issue of requirement compliance,...
In particular for safety critical systems it is necessary to make sure that the non-functional properties imposed by a system architecture meet the corresponding requirements as e...
Recognizing human intentions is part of the decision process in many technical devices. In order to achieve natural interaction, the required estimation quality and the used comput...
Embedded systems are pervasive and frequently used for critical systems with time-dependent functionality. Dwyer et al. have developed qualitative specification patterns to facili...
To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive real-time systems, distributed object computing middleware must support application quality of service (QoS) requirements end...