The automotive industry is going through a fundamental change by moving from a
mechanical to a software-intensive industry in which most innovation and competition rely …

In recent years, the electrical and/or electronic architecture of vehicles has been significantly
evolving. The new generation of cars demands a considerable amount of computational …

Design space exploration (DSE) aims to find optimal design candidates of a domain with
respect to different objectives where design candidates are constrained by complex …

Abstract Design space exploration (DSE) aims at searching through various models
representing different design candidates to support activities like configuration design of …

Control systems are ubiquitous and often at the core of Cyber-Physical Systems, like cars
and aeroplanes. They are implemented as embedded software that interacts in closed loop …

Context Automotive software architectures describe distributed functionality by an interaction
of software components. One drawback of today's architectures is their strong integration …

Embedded systems span a wide range from a small platform of sensors and actuators to
distributed systems combining several interacting nodes. Designing such systems includes …

The accuracy of architecture-based reliability evaluations depends on a number of
parameters that need to be estimated, such as environmental factors or system usage …

Quality attributes, such as performance or reliability, are crucial for the success of a software
system and largely influenced by the software architecture. Their quantitative prediction …

It is currently considered good software engineering practice to decide between design
alternatives based on quantitative architecture evaluations for different quality attributes …