Building software systems with reusable components brings many advantages. The development becomes more efficient, the reliability of the products is enhanced, and the maintenance...
Building a system at the architectural level can be thought of as decomposition into components followed by a series of exercises in matching. Components must be composed with eac...
Rick Kazman, Paul C. Clements, Leonard J. Bass, Gr...
A Software Architecture is the overall structure of a system in terms of its constituent components and their interconnections. In this paper, we describe work to associate behavi...
In this paper we propose a communication-centric approach to specifying and checking how multithreaded programs use shared memory to perform inter-thread communication. Our approa...
Benjamin P. Wood, Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, Dan G...
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...