Refactoring in object-orientation has gained increased attention due to its ability to improve design quality. Refactoring using design patterns (DPs) leads to production of high ...
This paper outlines some fundamental concepts for the development of a system design framework based on standard notations and common CASE tools. We describe an environment for HW...
Elvinia Riccobene, Patrizia Scandurra, Alberto Ros...
Embedded systems such as smart cards or sensors are now widespread, but are often closed systems, only accessed via dedicated terminals. A new trend consists in embedding Web serv...
Simon Duquennoy, Gilles Grimaud, Jean-Jacques Vand...
Reliability is a major requirement for most safety-related systems. To meet this requirement, fault-tolerant techniques such as hardware replication and software re-execution are ...
Jia Huang, Jan Olaf Blech, Andreas Raabe, Christia...
Distributed programming is applicable in a wide range of domains such as control systems. These systems are subject to mutable environments and must also provide a time varying ad...
Luci Pirmez, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo, Reinaldo...