Contracting for software development
Management Science
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Management Science - Special issue: Frontier research on information systems and economics
Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
The Quantity Flexibility Contract and Supplier-Customer Incentives
Management Science
Surviving the SOC revolution: a guide to platform-based design
Surviving the SOC revolution: a guide to platform-based design
Bus access optimization for distributed embedded systems based on schedulability analysis
DATE '00 Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Component selection and matching for IP-based design
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
A General Framework for Analysing System Properties in Platform-Based Embedded System Designs
DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe - Volume 1
Software development outsourcing contract: structure and business value
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Realizing value from information technology investment
System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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Increasing design complexity eventually leads to a design process that is distributed over several companies. This is already found in the automotive industry but SoC design appears to move in the same direction. Design processes for complex systems are iterative, but iteration hardly reaches beyond company borders. Iterations require availability of preliminary design data and estimations, but due to cost and liability issues suppliers often hesitate to provide such preliminary data. Moreover, companies are rarely able to judge the accuracy and precision of externally estimated data. So, the systems integrator experiences increased design risk. Particular mechanisms are needed to ensure, that the integrated system will meet the overall requirements even if part of the early estimations are wrong or imprecise. Based on work in supply chain management, we propose an inter-company design process that is based on formal techniques from real-time systems engineering and so called flexible quantity contracts. In this process, formal techniques control design risk and flexible contracts regulate cooperation and cost distribution. The process effectively delays the design freeze point beyond the contract conclusion to enable design iterations. We explain the process and give an example.