Two main issues need to be covered when dealing with the dependability of component-based systems: quality assurance of reusable software components and quality assurance of the a...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
This paper introduces the notion of transparent distribution of real time software components. Transparent distribution means that (1) the functional and temporal behavior of a sy...
Emilia Farcas, Claudiu Farcas, Wolfgang Pree, Jose...
The decomposition of large systems into parts is a general principle of software design. Even more, in the scope of distributed systems a partition of the whole system into distri...
A key problem in model checking open systems is environment modeling (i.e., representing the behavior of the execution context of the system under analysis). Software systems are ...
Oksana Tkachuk, Matthew B. Dwyer, Corina S. Pasare...
We present the current state of our STSLib project. This project aims at defining an environment to formally specify and execute software components. One important feature is that...