Computer-based systems are now essential to everyday life. They involve both tech- cal (hardware/software) components and human beings as active participants. Wh- ever we ?y aboard an aircraft or withdraw money from a cash point, a combination of humans, machines and software is supporting the delivery of the service. These systems and many others bene't from the miniaturisation and cost reduction of the hardware which has made it possible for computers to be embedded everywhere. An equally remarkable development is the software involved: today, systems are built which were literally...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR-7, held in Austin, Texas, USA, in April 2002. The 22 revised full papers presented together with summaries or abstracts of keynotes, workshops, and tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on implementation, product lines, managerial and economic issues, generators, reuse of non-code artifacts, and design issues. The book contributes to bridging the gap between industrial practice and academic research and...

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),...