Sciweavers

COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Metamodel Recovery from Multi-tiered Domains Using Extended MARS
With the rapid development of model-driven engineering (MDE), domain-specific modeling has become a widely used software development technique. In MDE, metamodels represent a schem...
Qichao Liu, Barrett R. Bryant, Marjan Mernik
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Security in Context: Analysis and Refinement of Software Architectures
Security analysis methods can provide correct yet meaningless results if the assumptions underlying the model do not conform to reality. We present an approach to analyze the secur...
Thomas Heyman, Riccardo Scandariato, Wouter Joosen
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Team Factors and Failure Processing Efficiency: An Exploratory Study of Closed and Open Source Software Development
Researchers in the field of software engineering economics have associated team factors, such as team size and team experience, with productivity and quality. Since distributed and...
Michael Grottke, Lars M. Karg, Arne Beckhaus
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Minimising the Preparation Cost of Runtime Testing Based on Testability Metrics
Abstract--Test cost minimisation approaches have traditionally been devoted to minimising "execution costs", while maximising coverage or reliability. However, in a runti...
Alberto González-Sanchez, Éric Piel,...
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Specifying Time-Sensitive Systems with TLA+
We present a pattern-based method to express time specifications in the language TLA+ . A real-time module RealTimeNew is introduced to encapsulate the definitions of commonly used...
Hehua Zhang, Ming Gu, Xiaoyu Song
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Adaptation Approach for Component-Based Software Architecture
In this paper we propose a meta-model for architectures with heterogeneous multimedia components. Currently, a generic solution does not exist to automatically deploy a distributed...
Derdour Makhlouf, Philippe Roose, Marc Dalmau, Nac...
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Consistency Model for Identity Information in Distributed Systems
In distributed IT systems, replication of information is commonly used to strengthen the fault tolerance on a technical level or the autonomy of an organization on a business level...
Thorsten Höllrigl, Jochen Dinger, Hannes Hart...
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
GenRed: A Tool for Generating and Reducing Object-Oriented Test Cases
An important goal of automatic testing techniques, including random testing is to achieve high code coverage with a minimum set of test cases. To meet this goal, random testing res...
Hojun Jaygarl, Kai-Shin Lu, Carl K. Chang
COMPSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Representing and Reasoning about Web Access Control Policies
The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, service-oriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effect...
Gail-Joon Ahn, Hongxin Hu, Joohyung Lee, Yunsong M...