Systems development is replete with projects that represent substantial resource investments but result in systems that fail to meet users’ needs. Evidence-based development is ...
Abstract. In this article we elaborate on portability in componentbased operating systems, focusing in the hardware mediator construct proposed by Frhlich in the Application-Orient...
Abstract. We present a technique for designing reconfiguration controllers in the Fractal component-based framework. We obtain discrete control loops that automatically enforce saf...
Abstract. In the first part of this article we introduce the notion of a backwardforward conditioning (BFC) system that generalises the notion of zero-class admissibiliy introduce...
Software systems are increasingly being built as compositions of reusable artifacts (components, frameworks, toolkits, plug-ins, APIs, etc) that have non-trivial usage constraints...