The architecture of a software-intensive system can be defined as the set of relevant design
decisions that affect the qualities of the overall system functionality; therefore, architectural …

The most distinctive thing about humans is not the thumb, of course. It is design. Unlike any
other animal, we incessantly and dramatically reshape both ourselves and our environment …

Nowadays, with the development of software reuse, software developers are paying more
attention to component‐related technologies, which have been mostly applied in the …

Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are increasingly being used in software
development. In COTS-based development, selecting appropriate COTS is the most crucial …

In Open Source Software, resources of any project are open for reuse by introducing
dependencies or copying the resource itself. In contrast to dependency-based reuse, the …

In this paper we propose a novel error control scheme to cope with errors affecting the
communication links of a NoC. Our scheme can be configured in Correction Mode, Detection …

In the past decade component-based software engineering (CBSE) has gained
considerable attention from both industry and the scientific community. Obviously, selecting …

In this article, a deterministic model for the selection and ranking of commercial off-the-shelf
(COTS) components is developed on the basis of fuzzy modified distance-based approach …

In today's scenario, software has become an essential component in all kinds of systems.
The size and the complexity of the software increases with a corresponding increase in its …

Features variety, variations among organisations' needs and the plethora of powerful project
and portfolio management (PPM) information systems in the market, make the selection …