Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
Ciaran O'Reilly, Philip J. Morrow, David W. Bustar...
—The purpose of secure devices such as smartcards is to protect secret information against software and hardware attacks. Implementation of the appropriate protection techniques ...
Ashur Rafiev, Julian P. Murphy, Alexandre Yakovlev
For many safety-critical systems a safety case is built as part of the certification or acceptance process. The safety case assembles evidence to justify that the design and imple...
We introduce the foundation of a system modeling environment targeted at capturing the anticipated interactions of hardware and software behaviors -- not just their co-execution. ...
Neal K. Tibrewala, JoAnn M. Paul, Donald E. Thomas
-- Reuse of large-grain software components offers the potential for significant savings in application development cost and time. Successful component reuse and substitutability ...
Nenad Medvidovic, Peyman Oreizy, Richard N. Taylor