Complex systems exhibit emergent patterns of behavior at different levels of organization. Powerful network analysis methods, developed in physics and social sciences, have been s...
Andre Nash, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Premkuma...
A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
For `mixed-criticality' systems that have both critical and non-critical functions, the greatest leverage on dependability may be at the design level. By designing so that ea...
Large, multinational software development organizations face a number of issues in supporting software design and modeling by geographically distributed architects. To address the...
Jae young Bang, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Ne...
There is a lack of `explicit education' of different modes of creativity and different methodologies for initiating creative processes. This is important for not only art pra...