While it is widely agreed that architectural simplicity is a key factor to the success of large software systems, it is not obvious how to measure architectural complexity. Our ap...
Underlying any single-user software visualization (SV) system is a visualization language onto which its users must map the computations they would like to visualize with the syst...
Sarah A. Douglas, Christopher D. Hundhausen, Donna...
Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
To deal with the increasing complexity of software systems and uncertainty of their environments, software engineers have turned to self-adaptivity. Self-adaptive systems are capab...
Yuriy Brun, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Cristina ...
In this paper, we discuss what we believe is the grand challenge facing the software quality research community: the ability to accurately define, in the very earliest stages of d...