Commercial-off-the-shelf components (COTS) are widely reused at present and black-box composition is the unique way to integrate them into the target system. However, various mism...
Designers of embedded systems are facing ever tighter constraintson design time, but computer aided design tools for embedded systems have not kept pace with these trends. The Chi...
Software architecture description languages (ADLs) were a particularly active research area in the 1990s. In 2000, we published an extensive study of existing ADLs, which has serv...
Systems on chip (SoC) have much in common with traditional (networked) distributed systems in that they consist of largely independent components with dedicated communication inte...
The notion of functional or modular dependency is fundamental to understand the architecture and inner workings of any software system. In this paper, we propose to extend that no...