: Modern society relies heavily on complex software systems for everyday activities. Dependability of these systems thus has become a critical feature that determines which product...
During the last three years we have been building an instantiation of a system's development paradigm, called ARTS. The paradigm consists of a view of what a system developme...
This paper shows how an architecture description notation that has support for timed events can be used to provide a meta-language for specifying exact communication semantics. Th...
Understanding complex software systems requires getting insight in how system properties, such as performance, trust, reliability, or structural attributes, correspond to the syst...
The software architecture of most systems is described informally and diagrammatically. In order for these descriptions to be meaningful at all, gures are understood by interpreti...