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WCRE
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Understanding Feature Evolution in a Family of Product Variants
Existing software product variants, developed by ad hoc reuse such as copy-paste-modify, are often a starting point for building Software Product Line (SPL). Understanding of how ...
Yinxing Xue, Zhenchang Xing, Stan Jarzabek
QOSA
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Using QoS-Contracts to Drive Architecture-Centric Self-adaptation
Self-adaptation is now a promising approach to maximize the satisfaction of requirements under changing environmental conditions. One of the key challenges for such self-adaptive s...
Franck Chauvel, Hui Song, Xiangping Chen, Gang Hua...
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Variance analyses from invariance analyses
An invariance assertion for a program location is a statement that always holds at during execution of the program. Program invariance analyses infer invariance assertions that ca...
Josh Berdine, Aziem Chawdhary, Byron Cook, Dino Di...
ICFEM
2005
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
An Evidential Tool Bus
Abstract. Theorem provers, model checkers, static analyzers, test generators. . . all of these and many other kinds of formal methods tools can contribute to the analysis and devel...
John M. Rushby
ICAIL
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Specifying and Reasoning with Institutional Agents
This paper proposes a logic-oriented framework for institutional agents specification and analysis. Within this framework institutional agents are seen as artificial agents that a...
Filipe Santos, Olga Pacheco