Several studies have been conducted to determine if company-specific cost models deliver better prediction accuracy than cross-company cost models. However, mixed results have lef...
Hardware/software partitioning is a crucial problem in embedded system design. In this paper, we provide an alternative approach to solve this problem using Particle Swarm Optimiz...
Alakananda Bhattacharya, Amit Konar, Swagatam Das,...
A commonly held belief is that the friend construct in C++ is a violation of encapsulation. However, little empirical analysis of its use has taken place to provide evidence to su...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...
Distributed Real-Time (DRE) systems require the verification of their properties to ensure both reliability and conformance to initial requirements. Architecture description langu...
The software architecture of most systems is described informally and diagrammatically. In order for these descriptions to be meaningful at all, gures are understood by interpreti...