Abstract. Software systems should evolve in order to respond to changing client requirements and their evolving environments. But unfortunately, the evolution of legacy application...
Simon Allier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Salah Sadou, St&...
Large, complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Addition, removal and replacement of a software component are the elementary evolution operations that have ...
Software development in general and groupware applications in particular can greatly benefit from the reusability and interoperability aspects associated with software components....
Understanding complex component-based systems often requires getting insight in how certain system properties, such as performance, trust, reliability, or structural attributes, c...
Designing architectures requires the balancing of multiple system quality objectives. In this paper, we present techniques that support the exploration of the quality properties of...
Egor Bondarev, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Peter H. N. ...