Techniques for reliably estimating development efforts are a fundamental requirement for a wide-scale dissemination of ontologies in business contexts. In this paper we account fo...
This paper presents a specification-based approach for systematic testing of products from a software product line. Our approach uses specifications given as formulas in Alloy, a ...
Engin Uzuncaova, Daniel Garcia, Sarfraz Khurshid, ...
This work presents a software-implemented fault tolerance approach for building a reliable database application in a CORBA environment. Database applications have functional requi...
Domenico Cotroneo, Nicola Mazzocca, Luigi Romano, ...
Exception handling and replication are two mechanisms that increase software reliability. Exception handling helps programmers control situations in which the normal flow of a pro...
Software construction has typically drawn on engineering metaphors like building bridges or cathedrals, which emphasize architecture, specification, central planning, and determin...
David F. Bacon, Eric Bokelberg, Yiling Chen, Ian A...