This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...
Management of architectural knowledge is vital for improving an organisation's capabilities in software architecture. Recently, there have been many efforts to develop variou...
Abstract: The evaluation of software architectures is crucial to ensure that the design of software systems meets the requirements. We present a generic methodical framework that e...
Steffen Becker, Viktoria Firus, Simon Giesecke, Wi...
Finite-state verification techniques are often hampered by the stateexplosion problem. One proposed approach for addressing this problem is assume-guarantee reasoning. Using rece...
Jamieson M. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. C...
Software pipelining is a critical optimization for producing efficient code for VLIW/EPIC and superscalar processors in highperformance embedded applications such as digital sign...