The Architecture Analysis & Design Language, (AADL), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), AS5506, was developed to support quantitative analysis of the runtime architecture of the embedded software system in computer systems with multiple critical operational properties, such as responsiveness, safety-criticality, security, and reliability by allowing a model of the system to be annotated wit...

Information system development is a highly iterative process in which developers seek to capture the needs and desires of all stakeholders. The goal is to transform the requirements into a complete system consisting of both manual and computerized parts. The product of such a development project undergoes changes because of its iterative nature. Extensive attention is given to traceability as a...

Ontology-based applications play an increasingly important role in the public and corporate Semantic Web. While today there exist a range of tools and technologies to support specific ontology engineering and management activities, architectural design guidelines for building ontology-based applications are missing. In this paper, we present an architecture for ontology-based applications—cover...

Database application is one of the most common types of systems. Grounded on the simple concept of data lifecycle— any data in database is created from insertion, used via selection and modification and terminated at deletion—this paper proposes a novel approach to reverse engineer the data lifecycle automatically from the source code of database applications. The extracted information can be u...

The paper considers enterprise content management (ECM) issues in global heterogeneous distributed computational environment. Present-day enterprises have accumulated a huge data burden. Manipulating with such a bulk becomes an essential problem, particularly due to its global distribution, heterogeneous and weak-structured character. The conceptual approach to integrated ECM lifecycle support ...

Wide diffusion of methodologies and software relevant to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) in industrial companies faces heterogeneity of IT systems. Especially, the lack of interoperability between Product Data Management (PDM) systems, that drive virtual product development, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), which manages real product, cannot lead to a coherent description of the produ...

State-of-the-art application lifecycle management (ALM) platforms offer many benefits that enable the software development team to smoothly plan, execute and monitor its development activities. However, to first-time adopters of ALM platforms, the initial adoption presents three challenges that often prevent a successful adoption: to correctly define the team’s current software development acti...

Safety case is one of system safety lifecycle products and should be consistent with other lifecycle products like hazard analysis results. In this paper we present a method of safety case integration with hazard tables based on the use of parametrized argument patterns. We describe a hazard table metamodel, a safety argument pattern and a mechanism of pattern instantiation using a linking tabl...

JUST is a versatile storage infrastructure operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The system provides high-performance and high-capacity resources for supercomputer facility. Recently, additional management services, addressing demands beyond computing area, have been added. In support of its mission, consists multiple tiers with different performance function...

This paper describes our SoftDock system, which is a distributed model management system to support collaborative software development. SoftDock leverages the team development, tool interoperability, and model continuity across development lifecycle. It supports Unified Modeling Language (UML) to specify software models, and maintains the model information with UML eXchange Format (UXF), which ...