In-situ reconfiguration of software is indispensable in embedded networked sensing systems. It is required for re-tasking a deployed network, fixing bugs, introducing new features...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
Quantitative techniques have traditionally been used to assess software architectures. We have found that early in the development process there is often insufficient quantitative...
Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a standard on-chip core interface specification. The current release is flexible and configurable to support the communication needs of a wide range...
Quality attribute models are proposed as the linkage between a specification of a quality attribute requirement and a design fragment that is focused on achieving that requirement...