Recent evidences indicate that most faults in software systems are found in only a few of a system's components [1]. The early identification of these components allows an or...
T. Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ajith Guedem, Walid Abde...
We address the dependence of critical infrastructures— including electric power, telecommunications, finance and transportation—on vulnerable information systems. Our approach...
Kevin J. Sullivan, John C. Knight, Xing Du, Steve ...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...
: Multiagent Systems (MAS) are open, heterogeneous and distributed software systems of autonomous agents. The management of exception differs in MAS from what is known in usual eng...
SCA (Service Component Architecture) is an OASIS standard for describing service-oriented middleware architectures. In particular, SCA promotes a disciplined way for designing dis...