During its formative decades the software community looked twice to the theories of ChristopherAlexander for inspiration, both times failing to completely master the architect’s...
The evolution of deep submicron technologies allows the development of increasingly complex Systems on a Chip (SoC). However, this evolution is rendering less viable some well-est...
Julian J. H. Pontes, Matheus T. Moreira, Rafael So...
The maintenance and evolution of critical software with high requirements for reliability is an extremely demanding, time consuming and expensive task. Errors introduced by ad-hoc ...
In this work we present the basic concepts for a dynamic plug-in-based software architecture using concepts from the Petri netbased MAS framework Mulan. By transferring the concept...
Lawrence Cabac, Michael Duvigneau, Daniel Moldt, H...
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...