Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex,
adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software …

Since the underutilization of technology often prevents organizations from rea** expected
benefits from IT investments, an increasing body of literature studies how to elicit value …

With the increasing importance of reliability in business and industrial software systems, new
techniques of architecture-based reliability engineering are becoming an integral part of the …

Many future software systems will be distributed across a network, extensively providing
different kinds of services for their users. These systems must be highly reliable and provide …

Evaluating quality attributes of a design model in the early stages of development can
significantly reduce the cost and risks of develo** a low quality product. To make this …

The availability of enterprise information systems is a key concern for many organisations.
This article describes a method for availability analysis based on Fault Tree Analysis and …

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a method for assessing cause-consequence
relations between component faults and hazards that may occur during the lifetime of a …

Enterprise architecture is a model-based IT and business management discipline.
Enterprise architecture analysis concerns using enterprise architecture models for analysis …

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) investigates the development of systems involving the use of
different types of sensors, which monitor activities and vital signs of lonely elderly people in …

Embedded and mobile software systems are marked with a high degree of unpredictability
and dynamism in the execution context. At the same time, such systems are often mission …