Interactions between agents are traditionally specified as interaction protocols using notations such as Petri nets, AUML, or finite state machines. These protocols are a poor ...
Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
HPC scientific computational models are notoriously difficult to develop, debug, and maintain. The reasons for this are multifaceted — including difficulty of parallel programm...
Steve Quenette, Louis Moresi, P. D. Sunter, Bill F...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are constantly gaining ground for the provision of business to business as well as user-centric services, mainly in the form of Web Services ...
George N. Prezerakos, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Giovan...
When analyzing the evolution history of a software project, we wish to develop results that generalize across projects. One approach is to analyze design patterns, permitting char...