The paper presents why AUTOSAR conformance tests are required, what has been achieved, and how 3 car manufacturers will use conformance tests as part of their vehicle E/E engineering process. Important topics covered are the need for conformance testing when developing a standard, the relationship between conformance and interoperability, the need for interoperability of ECUs in a vehicle, and ...

IT service providers need to be capable to efficiently ensure a certain level of quality for their services. Thus, cost-efficient measurement mechanisms have to be set up to analyze and control the operations and quickly discover inconsistencies that may lead to a decrease in the quality of the service. It is crucial for the business to know if the implemented processes are executed as designed...

Many companies have adopted Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) for supporting their business processes in some form. On the one hand these systems typically log events (e.g., in transaction logs or audit trails) related to the actual business process executions. On the other hand explicit process models describing how the business process should (or is expected to) be executed are frequen...

Many companies have adopted Process-aware Information Systems (PAIS) to support their business processes in some form. On the one hand these systems typically log events (e.g., in transaction logs or audit trails) related to the actual business process executions. On the other hand explicit process models describing how the business process should (or is expected to) be executed are frequently ...

With the advent of comprehensive safety standards for software intensive safety related systems, such as IEC 61508 and its speciali-sations for particular industry sectors (medical, machinery, process, etc), there is a need to establish combinations of techniques which can be used by industry to demonstrate conformance to these standards for particular developments. In this paper we describe on...

This paper examines the difficulty of the schema conformance problem for the following XML schema languages: • DTD • RELAX NG with W3C XML Schema Datatypes • Schematron • W3C XML Schema • Namespace Routing Language The schema conformance problem is defined as follows: Given a schema, is there an XML document that conforms to the schema? For these five XML schema languages, the schema conformanc...

The use of process models in business information systems for analysis, execution, and improvement of processes assumes that the models describe reality. Conformance checking is a technique to validate how good a given process model describes recorded executions of the actual process. Recently, artifacts have been proposed as a paradigm to capture dynamic, and inter-organizational processes in ...

Actually automotive industries is in a dilemma: Further customer satisfaction requires further features to be built into cars and this requires more electronics in cars. All this currently happens at a rapidly increasing pace thus increasing networked cars electronic control systems complexity correspondingly. Networking obviously requires interoperable communication modules consisting of commu...