—Assurance Based Development (ABD) is a novel approach to the synergistic construction of critical software systems and their assurance arguments. In ABD, the need for assurance ...
We analyze the main motivations that lead to the present need for supporting continuous software evolution, and discuss some of the reasons for change requirements. Achieving softw...
— This paper focuses on the role of real-time operation support in mobile robot control architectures for service applications. We show that a control architecture with integrate...
Stefano Caselli, Francesco Monica, Monica Reggiani
This paper focuses on the development of a principled methodology for the dependability analysis of composite Web services. The first step of the methodology involves a UML represe...
Embedded control programs are hard to analyse because their behaviour depends on how they interact with hardware devices. In particular, embedded code typically uses interrupts to...