Network protocols must work. The effects of protocol specification or implementation errors range from reduced performance, to security breaches, to bringing down entire networks....
The promise of component-based software development is that larger, more complex systems can be built reasonably quickly and reliably from pre-fabricated ("off-the-shelf"...
Teamwork demands agreement among teammembers to collaborate and coordinate effectively. When a disagreement between teammates occurs (due to failures), team-members should ideally...
A fundamental reason for investing in product families is to minimize the application engineering costs. Several organizations that employ product families, however, are becoming i...
Simulation composability is a difficult capability to achieve due to the challenges of creating components, selecting combinations of components, and integrating the selected comp...
Michael Roy Fox, David C. Brogan, Paul F. Reynolds...