Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: An embedded software component quality model - EQM

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"An Embedded Software Component Quality Model--EQM"
by Fernando Carvalho, Silvio R.L. Meira, Bruno Freitas, and Nathalia Carvalho
in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration, 2009, IRI '09., pp. 444-445, 10-12 Aug. 2009

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"A Software Component Quality Model: A Preliminary Evaluation"
by Alexandre Alvaro, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Silvio Lemos Meira,
in the Proceedings of the 32nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2006. SEAA '06., Aug. 29-1 Sept. 2006, pp. 28-37

"Towards a Software Component Certification Framework,"
by Alexandre Alvaro, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Silvio Lemos Meira
in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software, QSIC 2007., Oct. 11-12, 2007, pp. 298-303


Component-based software development is becoming more generalized, representing a considerable efficient design for the embedded industry. The perspective of reduced development costs and shorter life cycles acts as a motivation for this expansion. However, several technical issues remain unsolved before embedded software component's industry reaches the maturity exhibited by other hardware component industries. Problems such as the component selection by their integrators and the uncertain quality of thirdparty developed components, bring new challenges to the embedded system design community. By the other hand, the embedded software components certification area is still immature and further research is needed in order to obtain well-defined standards for certification. In this way, we aim to propose an embedded component quality model, describing consistent and well-defined characteristics, quality attributes and related metrics for the components evaluation. A preliminary evaluation to analyze the results of using the embedded software component quality model proposed is also presented..