The description of software architectures has always been concerned with the definition of the appropriate languages for designing the various architectural artifacts. Over the pa...
Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded sys...
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
A vital issue in the correct use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components is the proper understanding of their functionality, quality attributes and ways of operation. Traditi...
Parts of the CICS transaction processing system were modelled formally in the 1980s in a collaborative project between IBM Hursley Park and Oxford University Computing Laboratory....