Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products are increasingly used as software components in large-scale systems. We had proposed an approach for distributed COTS software int...
This study questions the traditional view of software architecture as a specification that needs only be understood by software architects and engineers. Based on an intensive stu...
This paper proposes a formal framework and architecture for specification and analysis of interactive agents. The framework can be used to explore the design space, study features...
Abstract. Product family architectures need to be captured much like “regular” software architectures. Unfortunately, representations for product family architectures are scarc...
Quantitative techniques have traditionally been used to assess software architectures. We have found that early in the development process there is often insufficient quantitative...