Dependable software systems are difficult to develop because developers must understand and address several interdependent and pervasive dependability concerns. Features that addr...
We previously developed a component-oriented model that combines ideas from self-organizing architectures and from design by contract to address the complexity of design in multi-t...
Reimer Behrends, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Laura K. Di...
As the Model Driven Development (MDD) and Product Line Engineering (PLE) appear as major trends for reducing software development complexity and costs, an important missing stone b...
Reda Bendraou, Philippe Desfray, Marie-Pierre Gerv...
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...
Organizations often encounter problems in the Product Integration process. The difficulties include finding errors at integration related to mismatch between the different componen...