Assembling software components into an architecture is a difficult task because of its combinatorial complexity. There is thus a need for automating this building process, either t...
Nicolas Desnos, Sylvain Vauttier, Christelle Urtad...
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
: Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) and Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) are solutions to support software evolution by decomposing a software system into conc...
Nicolas Pessemier, Lionel Seinturier, Laurence Duc...
A component is the basic re-usable unit of composition to build composite systems by connecting to others through their provided and required ports. Checking the functional complia...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...