Simulink models are also software: Modularity assessment

QoSA 2013 - Proceedings of the 9th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-106

  Dajsuren, Yanja ^a   Van Den Brand, Mark G J ^a   Serebrenik, Alexander ^a   Roubtsov, Serguei ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automotive architectural quality; Modularity; Quality metrics; Simulink model

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY; AUTOMOTIVE COMPANIES; AUTOMOTIVE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; CONTROL SOFTWARE SYSTEM; GRAPHICAL MODELING LANGUAGE; MODULARITY; QUALITY METRICS; SIMULINK MODELS;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84880550660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2465478.2465482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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