It is common for safety-critical embedded systems that strategies for software reuse and maintenance are mainly planned and managed at design-time. Currently, most frameworks for managing application software in the safety domain use a component-based ...

Safety architecture patterns provide knowledge about large scale design decisions for safety-critical systems. They provide good ways to avoid, detect, and handle faults in software or hardware. In this paper we revise existing architectural safety ...

An overwhelming number of patterns have been described in literature. As well, comparisons of related patterns with similar outcomes can be found, working out also their particular differences. In this paper, a synoptic view on related patterns and ...

Pattern mining is a term used in the pattern community to describe the process of identifying or discovering patterns. To identify new patterns, usually an informal or ad hoc process of finding patterns (e.g., in existing software systems) is used. This ...

Control systems are getting more and more complex and include growing number of features. The control systems are nowadays software controlled to high degree. All features of the machine, however, are not useful for all customers and customers do not ...

OfficeFloor is a middleware framework that bases its design on the patterns occurring within an office. Re-using office patterns within software provides two improvements to software design. The first is improved performance tuning of applications ...