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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Separation of concerns for dependable software design
For `mixed-criticality' systems that have both critical and non-critical functions, the greatest leverage on dependability may be at the design level. By designing so that ea...
Daniel Jackson, Eunsuk Kang
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Providing dependability for web services
Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the foundat...
Jeferson L. R. Souza, Frank Siqueira
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Software dependability modeling using an industry-standard architecture description language
: Performing dependability evaluation along with other analyses at architectural level allows both making architectural tradeoffs and predicting the effects of architectural decisi...
Ana-Elena Rugina, Peter H. Feiler, Karama Kanoun, ...
IWC
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Dependable domestic systems design: A socio-technical approach
This paper describes a model that defines the attributes of domestic systems that lead to system dependability and a user-oriented specification method for support systems based...
Ian Sommerville, Guy Dewsbury
JSS
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Software architecture-based regression testing
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
JSS
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
A practical framework for eliciting and modeling system dependability requirements: Experience from the NASA high dependability
The dependability of a system is contextually subjective and reflects the particular stakeholder
Paolo Donzelli, Victor R. Basili
FTCS
1997
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14 years 6 days ago
Toward Accessibility Enhancement of Dependability Modeling Techniques and Tools
Fast turnaroundtime independabilityevaluation iscrucialfor e cient fault-tolerant system design and dependability of the resulting product since timely feedbacks will allow more i...
Ann T. Tai, Herbert Hecht, Kishor S. Trivedi, Bing...
CRITICAL
2005
14 years 24 days ago
Critical perspectives on dependability: an older person's experience of assistive technology
This paper considers multiple meanings of dependability as part of a project investigating home based assistive and smart home technology for older people. It argues that because ...
Mark Blythe, Darren J. Reed, Peter C. Wright, Andr...
EPEW
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Dependability Evaluation of Web Service-Based Processes
Abstract. As Web service-based system integration recently became the mainstream approach to create composite services, the dependability of such systems becomes more and more cruc...
László Gönczy, Silvano Chiarado...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Improving System Dependability with Functional Alternatives
We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
Charles P. Shelton, Philip Koopman