Quality and risk concerns currently limit the application of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components to non-critical applications. Software metrics can quantify factor...
In component based software engineering, an application is build by composing trusted and reusable units of execution, the components. A composition is formed by connecting the com...
Component-based software development is a promising way to improve quality, time to market and handle the increasing complexity of software for real-time systems. In this paper th...
: The concept of interface in Ada 2005 significantly facilitates its usage as the basis for a software components technology. This technology, taking benefit of the resources that ...
: This paper shows how architecture description languages can be tailored to the design of embedded automotive control software. Furthermore, graphical modeling means are put in an...