A software-intensive company generally grows from one of its remarkable software products.
Different approaches adopted by a company will contribute to its future evolution. The …

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Model-driven engineering (MDE) is
the automatic production of software from simplified models of structure and functionality. It …

Object-oriented frameworks have become a popular paradigm used to improve the software
development lifecycle. They promote reuse by providing a semi-complete architecture that …

We introduce'Joint Feature Distributions', a general statistical framework for feature based
multi-image matching that explicitly models the joint probability distributions of …

A reutilização de software busca aumentar a qualidade e produtividade no desenvolvimento
de software, evitando a duplicação do esforço e reaproveitando o máximo possível das …

Today's platforms, such as full mission simulators (FMSs), exhibit an unprecedented level of
hardware and software system integration. In this context, system integrators face …

Background Over the last years, a number of researchers have investigated how to improve
the reuse of crosscutting concerns. New possibilities have emerged with the advent of …

In 2018 the UK implemented the European Union's (EU) General Data Protection
Regulations (GDPR) into law as the Data Protection Act 2018. This significantly increased …

This paper describes the technical aspects of the transition to a software product line
approach in the automotive domain. One major challenge is the current existence of two …

Architecture description language (ADL) provides a linguistic approach to represent
software architecture. Usually, it has to develop a new ADL for a particular domain. Some …