Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
The COCOMO II model was created to meet the need for a cost model that accounted for future software development practices. This resulted in the formulation of three submodels for...
Bradford Clark, Sunita Devnani-Chulani, Barry W. B...
It is well documented that software product cost estimates are notoriously inaccurate across the software industry. Creating accurate cost estimates for software product developme...
Software monocultures are usually considered dangerous because their size and uniformity represent the potential for costly and widespread damage. The emerging concept of collabor...
Michael E. Locasto, Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos D....
This paper discusses a model-based design flow for requirements in distributed embedded software development. Such requirements are specified using a language similar to Linear T...
Luciano Lavagno, Marco Di Natale, Alberto Ferrari,...