In a UML model, different aspects of a system are covered by different types of diagrams and this bears the risk that an overall system specification becomes barely tractable by t...
Abstract The automotive domain is one of the most promising areas for component and service technologies in the near future. Vehicles are increasingly becoming integrated systems w...
The reactivity of Networked Automation Systems (NAS) has direct influence on safety and quality aspects. It can be determined by a response time analysis, which itself can be calc...
Agile development processes and component-based software architectures are two software engineering approaches that contribute to enable the rapid building and evolution of applic...
—Current architectures for systems integration provide means for forming agile business processes by manually or dynamically configuring the components. However, a major challeng...