A key concern in safety engineering is understanding the overall emergent failure behaviour of a system, i.e., behaviour exhibited by the system that is outside its specification ...
For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written in C, recompilatio...
Rahmat Adnan, Bas Graaf, Arie van Deursen, Joost Z...
Software systems need to change over time to cope with new requirements, and due to design decisions, the changes happen to crosscut the system’s structure. Understanding how ch...
— Existing human performance taxonomies which mostly can answer the question “what factors could affect the result” rather than “why it happened”, are usually used to ana...
A system based on a hierarchical scheduler is a system in which the processor is shared between several collaborative schedulers. Such schedulers exist since 1960 and they are bec...