Context Software architecture design creates and documents the high-level structure of a
software system. Such structure, expressed in architectural models, comprises software …

Robots are complex agents composed of various sensors and actuators that work together
with software to meet specific requirements. The subset of robots that has the ability to …

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate discrete-time computing and continuous-time
physical-world entities, which are often wirelessly interlinked. The use of wireless safety …

A number of solutions use software fault tolerance techniques based on design diversity to
create fault-tolerant composite services that leverage functionally equivalent services …

Often, either to expand the target market or to satisfy specific new requirements, software
systems inside a company are cloned, refactored, and customized, generating new derived …

Self-driving vehicles for commercial use cases like logistics or overcast mines increase their
owners' economic competitiveness. Volvo maintains, evolves, and distributes a vehicle …

Background Over recent years, software developers have been evaluating the benefits of
both Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and software fault tolerance techniques based on …

Modern systems need to able to self-adapt to changing user needs and system
environments. Examples of systems that demand self-adaptive capabilities include mobile …

Software Product Line development involves the explicit management of variability that has
to be encompassed by the software artifacts, in particular by the software architecture …

Model-driven strategies have been used in the development of software product lines
(SPLs) to facilitate product customization and to generate the source code of the derived …