: 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...
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...
We propose an approach for analyzing software architectures with respect to reliability to improve fault tolerance. The approach defines a failure scenario model that is based on ...