Collaborative software projects such as Linux and Apache have shown that a large, complex system can be built and maintained by many developers working in a highly parallel, relat...
The use of redundant computational nodes is a widely used design tactic to improve the reliability of complex embedded systems. However, this redundancy allocation has also an effe...
The development of complex distributed systems demands for the creation of suitable architectural styles (or paradigms) and related run-time infrastructures. An emerging style tha...
Gianpaolo Cugola, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Alfonso Fug...
—We describe how to use a timeband architecture to model real-time requirements. The architecture separates requirements that use different time units, producing a family of mode...
Jim Woodcock, Marcel Oliveira, Alan Burns, Kun Wei
When designing a plant for continuous or semi-continuous processes, such as paper pulp or petrochemical production systems, engineers face very complex tasks, which are only in pa...