The subsystem decomposition of a software system degrades gradually during its lifetime and therefore it gets harder and harder to maintain. As a result this decomposition needs t...
Olaf Seng, Markus Bauer, Matthias Biehl, Gert Pach...
Initial system specifications, such as use-case scenarios and properties, only partially specify the future system. We posit that synthesizing partial component-level behavior mod...
Ivo Krka, Yuriy Brun, George Edwards, Nenad Medvid...
The growing size and complexity of systems has revealed many shortcomings of existing software engineering practices, for example, lack of scalability. This in turn raised interes...
—For software, the costs of failures are not clearly understood. Often, these costs disappear in the costs of testing, the general developments costs, or the operating expenses. ...
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) enables the development and design of loosely coupled software components for integration with other software system. Since most legacy system wer...