—Dynamic reconfiguration – the ability to hot swap a component, or to introduce a new component into the system – is essential to supporting evolutionary change in long-live ...
Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products. This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before ...
The widespread use of XML brings new challenges for its integration into general software development processes. In particular, it is necessary to keep the consistency between diï¬...
The classical comprehension theories study relations between extensions, intensions, and names. Originally developed in linguistics and mathematics, these theories are applicable ...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...