Outsourcing has become common practice in the software industry. Organizations routinely subcontract the maintenance of their software assets to specialized companies. A great cha...
Now that the use of garbage collection in languages like Java is becoming widely accepted due to the safety and software engineering benefits it provides, there is significant int...
We present a divide-and-conquer method, called DiConic, for automatic addition of failsafe fault-tolerance to distributed programs, where a failsafe program guarantees to meet its...
Trading-off is a familiar element in requirements practice, but it generally assumes a set of independent requirements competing for resources. Choosing a tram route depends inste...
Quantitative prediction of quality properties (i.e. extrafunctional properties such as performance, reliability, and cost) of software architectures during design supports a syste...
Anne Martens, Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker, Ralf...