A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
Many safety-related and certification standards exist for developing safety-critical systems. Safety assessments are performed in practice, and system certification according to a...
XML has emerged as the primary standard of data representation and data exchange [13]. Although many software tools exist to assist the XML implementation process, data must be ma...
The CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit (CAST) is a new software toolkit, and related processing paradigm, which supports the construction and exploration of information-processing a...
MicroQoSCORBA (MQC) is a middleware platform that focuses on embedded applications by providing a very fine level of configurability of its internal orthogonal components. Using t...