Architecting Dependable Systems IV

by Lemos, Rogerio De; Gacek, Cristina; Romanovsky, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9783540740339
• ISBN10: 3540740333
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-14
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability is addressed at the architectural level. This book was born of an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures and dependability. This state-of-the-art survey contains 18 expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2006), organized at the 2006 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2006), held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in June 2006. It also contains a number of invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectural description languages, architectural components and patterns, architecting distributed systems, and architectural assurances for dependability.

Table of Contents

Architectural Description Languages
Architecting Dependable Systems with the SAE Architecture Analysis and Description Language (AADL)	p. 1
A System Dependability Modeling Framework Using AADL and GSPNs	p. 14
Towards Improving Dependability of Automotive Systems by Using the EAST-ADL Architecture Description Language	p. 39
The View Glue	p. 66
Architectural Components and Patterns
A Component-Based Approach to Verification and Validation of Formal Software Models	p. 89
A Pattern-Based Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Error Recovery	p. 115
Architectural Fault Tolerance Using Exception Handling	p. 142
Model-Centric Development of Highly Available Software Systems	p. 163
An Outline of an Architecture-Based Method for Optimizing Dependability Attributes of Software-Intensive Systems	p. 188
Architecting Distributed Systems
A Distributed Monitoring System for Enhancing Security and Dependability at Architectural Level	p. 210
Architecting Dynamic Reconfiguration in Dependable Systems	p. 237
Ecotopia: An Ecological Framework for Change Management in Distributed Systems	p. 262
Generic-Events Architecture: Integrating Real-World Aspects in Event-Based Systems	p. 287
Flexible Communication Architecture for Dependable Time-Triggered Systems	p. 316
Business Process Monitoring for Dependability	p. 337
Architectural Assurances for Dependability
Achieving Dependable Systems by Synergistic Development of Architectures and Assurance Cases	p. 362
Towards Evidence-Based Architectural Design for Safety-Critical Software Applications	p. 383
Extending Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Approach for Reliability Analysis at the Software Architecture Design Level	p. 409
Author Index	p. 435
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