Over the past decade, software architecture research has emerged as the principled study of the overall structure of software systems, especially the relations among subsystems an...
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...
platform and a suite of abstract components with which new developments in different application domains can be engineered with minimal effort [1]p.16. Generic platforms, or refere...
In object-oriented programming, unique permissions to object references are useful for checking correctness properties such as consistency of typestate and noninterference of conc...
Karl Naden, Robert Bocchino, Jonathan Aldrich, Kev...
Relations between models are important for effective automatic validation, for comparing implementations with specifications, and for increased understanding of embedded systems d...