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J. Software Engineering Applications, 2009, 2:1-12 Published Online April 2009 in SciRes (www.SciRP.org/journal/jsea) Design Pattern Representation for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems * * * Ashraf Armoush , Falk Salewski , Stefan Kowalewski * Embedded Software Laboratory, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Email: {armoush, salewski, kowalewski}@embedded.rwth-aachen.de Received January 9th, 2009; revised February 12th, 2009; accepted March 25th, 2009. ABSTRACT Design Patterns, which give abstract solutions to commonly recurring design problems, have been widely used in the software and hardware domain. As non-functional requirements are an important aspect in the design of safety-critical embedded systems, this work focuses on the integration of non-functional implications in an existing design pattern concept. We propose a pattern representation for safety-critical embedded application design methods by including fields for the implications and side effects of the represen ted design pattern on the non-functional requirements of the overall systems. The considered requirements include safety, reliability, modifiability, cost, and execution time. Keywords : Design Pattern, Embedded Systems, Non-Functional Requirements, Safety-Critical Systems 1. Introduction Design pattern, originally proposed in [1] by the architect have typically an impact on the cost, the reliability, the Christopher Alexander, is a universal approach to de- real-time behavior of the system, and on the modifiability scribe common solutions to widely recurring design of the resulting system. Depending on the application problems. Ever since, this concept has been applied in domain of the late