Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
The fact that crosscutting concerns (aspects) cannot be well modularized in object oriented software is an impediment to program comprehension: the implementation of a concern is ...
Mariano Ceccato, Marius Marin, Kim Mens, Leon Moon...
Developing requirements for software components, and ensuring these requirements are met by component designs, is very challenging, as very often application domain and stakeholde...
In this paper, we present a solution that allows systems to remain active while they are evolving. Our approach goes out from the principle of separated concerns and has two steps....
Currently, most software systems have a dynamic nature and need to evolve at run-time. For this reason, the dynamic reconfiguration of software architectures is a challenge that m...