Today, even a moderately sized corporate intranet contains multiple firewalls and routers, which are all used to enforce various aspects of the global corporate security policy. ...
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Given the inevitable trends towards increasing complexity of software-intensive systems, many future software-intensive systems will be ultra-large scale (ULS). Radical scale-up o...
Richard P. Gabriel, Rick Kazman, Linda M. Northrop...
We present in this paper a rigorous and automated based approach for the behavioral validation of control software systems. This approach relies on metamodeling, model-transformati...
Alban Rasse, Jean-Marc Perronne, Pierre-Alain Mull...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....