Automobile safety depends on the correct operation of software systems that are built from many different components. For good design, these components must be isolated, on multiple axes, so they ...

We use the software to design and analyze missioncritical components such as adapters that connect rocket launchers to their payloads. Comprehensively measuring complexity provides a quantity that can ...

166 pp., $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-201-70851-5. With few exceptions (and this is not one of them) in computing, the word, "simple" should only be applied with some form of a "relative-to" qualification.

Component-based software helps you get a system working quickly, keep costs down, and reuse the most robust software from prior applications. This article presents methods for creating your own ...