Nowadays, collaborative product development has become a strategic necessity to develop high quality products at low cost and with quick response time to market demand. Past decades have seen significant advances to collaborative product development. However, Enterprises are still confronted with some problems. Firstly, the research in strategic level of collaborative product development is lac...

The National Adaptive Processing Architecture (NAPA) is a major effort to integrate the resources needed to develop teraops class computing systems based on the principles of adaptive computing. The primary goals for this effort include: (1) the development of an example NAPA component which achieves an order of magnitude cost/performance improvement compared to traditional FPGA based systems, ...

Unit testing is an essential part in high quality software development. The prerequisite of the system-wide test is that all components are working correctly. Such components are checked by unit tests which are focused on small part of code. Unit tests are isolated from other code fragments and are frequently programmed by using third party tools. In this paper we show how to minimalize the num...

Just as modern software development strategies have introduced agile methods and rapid prototyping to organizations. Visual analytic tools now bring the same spirit of prototyping and iteration directly into the decision-making process. Yet decision makers and analysts may not yet be as “agile” as the tools they are using and instead tend to remain in their traditional roles during analytic tas...

Agent-oriented techniques offer a newapproach aimed at supporting thewhole software development process. All the phases in the software development process are treated with a single uniform concept, namely that of agents, and a system modelled by a collection of agents is called a multi-agent system. AOT as a newadvance in information technology can help to respond to the growing interest in ma...

European series of standards for the aerospace industry, includes system operations requirements as one of 16 types of NFRs for embedded and real-time systems. A number of concepts are provided in the ECSS and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards to describe the various types of candidate operations requirements at the system, software and hardware levels. In the a...

Safety Critical hard Real-Time Systems are ever present in the avionics industry. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) offers different levels of model abstraction and generation. This paper discusses our concerns relating to model development and generation when using the MDA approach in the avionics industry. These concerns are based on our experience when looking into adopting the MDA as part...

Much has been made of recent advances in software development as regards software reusability as a means of making systems easier to develop and maintain and making (as the name implies) it possible to reuse significant portions in other related systems development, further decreasing development and maintenance efforts. Real-time systems pose both unusual problems and unique opportunities in t...

Our primary goal is to understand what people do when they develop software and how long it takes them to do it. To get a proper perspective on software development processes we must study them in their context — that is, in their organizational and technological context. An extremely important means of gaining the needed understanding and perspective is to measure what goes on. Time and motion...

MDA is an approach to software development based on the design and transformation of models. In the MDA approach, models are the core artifacts throughout the software development lifecycle, and thus a key role is played by model transformations. Nevertheless, most MDA initiatives are dedicated, i.e., the platform features are implicitly employed in the transformation rules. As the aspects asso...