Software performance tuning of software product family architectures: Two case studies in the real-time embedded systems domain

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-19

  Del Rosso, Christian ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic memory management; Embedded real time systems; Software architecture assessments; Software performance; Software product family

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT; EMBEDDED REAL-TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE ASSESSMENTS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE PRODUCT FAMILY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 36049000829     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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