@conference {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio2012234,
	title = {A method for the prediction of software reliability},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, SEA 2002},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 16},
	pages = {234-240},
	publisher = {Acta Press},
	organization = {Acta Press},
	abstract = {This paper deals with the reliability assessment of component-based software to predict the software product reliability at the early stage. The proposed approach transforms a specification written in a semi-formal language into a stochastic model to be used for reliability evaluation. The paper assumes an UML-based system specification and introduces a method to map the specification onto a failure model. The method enables software designers with no specific knowledge of reliability theory to predict at design time the reliability of the final product, thus introducing lifecycle reliability prediction into their development best practices. The method is illustrated by use of an application case study that deals with the development of distributed software. A software architecture that allows the method to be easily integrated into UML-based software development environments is also introduced. The architecture is based on the use of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to represent both the UML system specification and the failure model.},
	keywords = {Application programs, Automatic modeling, Component based software, Forecasting, Formal languages, Reliability assessments, Reliability Evaluation, Reliability prediction, Reliability theory, Semi-formal languages, Software development environment, Software engineering, Software reliability, Specifications, XML, XML (extensible markup language)},
	isbn = {0889863237; 9780889863231},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904159409\&partnerID=40\&md5=e3371411e5b757b27cda93c405253da1},
	author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio and Iazeolla, G. and Mirandola, R.}
}
@conference {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio2006789,
	title = {A model-driven WSDL extension for describing the QoS of web services},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - ICWS 2006: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services},
	year = {2006},
	note = {cited By 69},
	pages = {789-796},
	abstract = {Web services are the building blocks of the emerging computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures. A web service is a self-describing, open component that supports rapid composition of distributed applications. Web service definitions are used to describe the service capabilities in terms of the operations of the service and the input and output messages for each operation. Such definitions are expressed in XML by use of the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). Unfortunately, a WSDL description only addresses the functional aspects of a web service without containing any useful description of non-functional or quality of service (QoS) characteristics. This paper introduces a lightweight WSDL extension for the description of QoS characteristics of a web service. The extension is carried out as a metamodel transformation, according to principles and standards recommended by the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). The WSDL metamodel is introduced and then transformed into the Q-WSDL (QoS-enabled WSDL) metamodel. The proposed Q-WSDL extension can effectively be used to specify QoS requirements, to establish service level agreements (SLA), to add QoS-oriented characteristics when querying registries of web services and to support the automated mapping from WSDL documents to Q-WSDL ones and from UML models to Q-WSDL web services. {\textcopyright} 2006 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Automated mappings, Computing paradigm, Data structures, Distributed computer systems, Metadata, Quality of service, Service-oriented architectures, Unified Modeling Language, Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), Web services, XML},
	isbn = {0769526691; 9780769526690},
	doi = {10.1109/ICWS.2006.10},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-38949121932\&partnerID=40\&md5=a1ab2cc907fb8abdedb50d97ab6a9776},
	author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio}
}
@article {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio2005127,
	title = {Metadata-driven design of integrated environments for software performance validation},
	journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
	volume = {76},
	number = {2},
	year = {2005},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {127-146},
	abstract = {Lifecycle validation of the performance of software products (i.e., the prediction of the product ability to satisfy the user performance requirements) encompasses the production of performance models from CASE documents. The model production activity is a critical, time-consuming and error-prone activity so that lifecycle validation is still not widely accepted and applied. The reason is twofold: the lack of methods for the automatic derivation of software performance models from CASE documents and the lack of environments that implement and integrate such methods. A number of methods for the automatic derivation of software performance models from CASE documents has been already proposed in literature, without however solving the automation problem. This paper instead faces up to such problem, by introducing an integrated and standards-based environment for the automatic derivation and evaluation of queueing-based performance models. The environment is based on the use of standards for metadata exchange (MOF, XMI), to ease the integration of the most common UML-based CASE tools, thus enabling software designers to smoothly introduce performance validation activities into their best development practices. {\textcopyright} 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Codes (standards), Computer aided software engineering, Computer simulation, Lifecycle validation, Metadata, Metamodeling, Performance, Quality control, Software environments, Software performance, XML},
	issn = {01641212},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jss.2004.04.014},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-11144271040\&partnerID=40\&md5=36f844fc57fc3cf9ba5a51344b5472d2},
	author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio and Iazeolla, G.}
}
@article {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio2005371,
	title = {A WSDL extension for performance-enabled description of web services},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {3733 LNCS},
	year = {2005},
	note = {cited By 6},
	pages = {371-381},
	abstract = {Web services are the building blocks of the emerging computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures. A web service is a self-describing, open component that supports rapid composition of distributed applications. Web service definitions are used to describe the service capabilities in terms of the operations of the service and the input and output messages for each operation. Such definitions are expressed in XML by use of the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). Unfortunately, a WSDL description only addresses the functional aspects of a web service without containing any useful description of non-functional or quality of service characteristics. This paper addresses the performance attribute of quality of service and introduces a WSDL extension for the description of performance characteristics of a web service. The extension is carried out as a metamodel transformation, according to principles and standards recommended by the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). The WSDL metamodel is introduced and then transformed into the P-WSDL (Performance-enabled WSDL) metamodel. The proposed P-WSDL extension can effectively be used to specify performance requirements of web services, to describe performance data measured on given web services, to add performance-oriented characteristics when querying registries of web services, to ease the derivation of performance models of web services and to support the automated mapping from WSDL documents to P-WSDL ones and from UML models to P-WSDL web services. {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.},
	keywords = {Computer architecture, Distributed computer systems, Mathematical models, Performance-enabled description, Quality of service, Rapid composition, Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), Web services, World Wide Web, XML},
	isbn = {3540294147; 9783540294146},
	issn = {03029743},
	doi = {10.1007/11569596_40},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33646536536\&partnerID=40\&md5=e0230caf091fca87279fb7199426e55c},
	author = {Andrea D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio}
}
