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COTS Journal (Digital Edition)
Taking you into the world of the military acquisition machine, COTS Journal provides in-depth coverage of commercially available embedded technology and its specific uses in military electronics and equipment. The COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) initiative is a revolution in military electronics development, and COTS Journal has helped lead the way. Free to engineers worldwide!
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misc.    

COTS vs. GOTS
On the lighter side - COTS Defined COTS - Commercial-off-the-shelf: Which means it probably isn't good enough for military use MOTS - Military-off-the-shelf: Which is good enough for military use but costs too much GOTS - What you're actually going to war with, whatever you gots.
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project    

Ballista
Ballista is a project to automatically test commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software for and harden against robustness "bugs" (e.g., "hangs" and "crashes"). In particular, the emphasis is on proper detection and handling of exceptional conditions so that their occurrence does not compromise the integrity of system operation.
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overview    

Commercial off-the-shelf From Wikipedia
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) is a term for software or hardware, generally technology or computer products, that are ready-made and available for sale, lease, or license to the general public. They are often used as alternatives to in-house developments or one-off government-funded developments. The use of COTS is being mandated across many government and business programs, as they may offer significant savings in procurement and...
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book    

COTS-Based Software Systems : 4th International Conference, ICCBSS 2005, Bilbao, Spain...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2005, held in Bilbao, Spain in February 2005. The 28 revised full papers presented together with summaries of panels, workshops, tutorials, and posters were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on COTS at business, integration and interoperability,...
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tutorial    

COTS product integration: An architectural approach
Purchasing and integrating a commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) product can provide substantial benefits to your development project. It can also lead to massive cost overruns, user dissatisfaction, and even project cancellation. There is no single 'silver-bullet' that you can apply to ensure that COTS product integration will go well, but certain best practices can increase the likelihood of success. In this article, you learn how to...
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publication    

COTS Journal (USA / Canada)
If you want to understand what COTS really stands for, this journal is the only publication focused exclusively on the COTS marketplace. New from the Real-Time Group, and available FREE to qualified EE's with a specific focus on embedded military issues. FREE in the USA / Canada only.
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