The coral reef habitats have been facing insightful threats from natural and anthropogenic sources across the world; while are creating major ecological pressure with maximum percentage of devastation to entire ecosystems. Acanthaster planci (L) or Crown-of-Thorns Sea star (CoTS) is known as potential predator corals can disrupt ecosystem their outbreaks within much-stipulated time.  CoTS ...

A common problem in aerodynamic and astrodynamic engineering is accurate modeling of systems that combine flexible and rigid bodies with a controller. Mechanical and control simulators typically represent only rigid bodies and require preliminary transformation of flexible body problems into a suitable approximation. Analytical methods and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) flexible-body analysis ...

Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software is increasingly being suggested for use in systems development, for reasons including cost, functionality, useability, testedness, availability of support and upgrades. At the same time, standards for use of software in safetyrelated systems are becoming increasingly stringent. This paper examines the issue of providing safety assurance for systems invol...

The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products in state-of-the-practice software development has shown a substantial increase during the last few years. The benefits of COTS usage are clear: reduced development cost and shorter time-to-market. However, using COTS software in development activities also raises risks such as using software that does not sufficiently satisfy the requ...

Risk is a broadranging and multidimensional topic, including both management risks and technical risks. Management risks for COTS are well known, such as loss of market control, rapid obsolescence, and the shift from a buyer’s market to a seller’s market. Technical risk factors are less well understood. These factors include interoperability and performance issues as well as safety. This paper ...

The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products in the construction of distributed large-scale systems implies the need for a new approach to systems testing. The evaluation process for COTS candidate selection begins at the same time as the establishments of initial requirements. This position paper presents arguments for the establishment of a testing protocol in the early stages...

Among the main activities involved in COTS-based development there are identification, evaluation, and selection of COTS products. Several techniques have been developed for these activities; all of them are based on measurement of attributes. The effort devoted to these activities is more valuable if the attributes can be reused. Since the evaluation of COTS is a very project-specific activity...

The use of commercial off-the-shelf software components (COTS) promises significant advances in terms of greater productivity, reduced time to market and reliability. However, the blackbox nature of these components poses equally significant challenges for managing maintenance, future change to component-based systems and in particular the impact of proposed changes. Unless these challenges are...

At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE/SA approach which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and selection of COTS components, using a representation of COTS components ...

The adoption of COTS-based development brings with it many challenges about the identification and finding of candidate components for reuse. Particularly, the first stage in the identification of COTS candidates is currently carried out dealing with unstructured information on the Web, which makes the evaluation process highly costing when applying complex evaluation criteria. To facilitate th...