Abstract. Software evolution has largely been focused on low-level implementation artefacts through refactoring techniques rather than the architectural level. However code-centric...
Abstract. Conventional middleware architectures suffer from insufficient module-level reusability and the ability to adapt in face of functionality evolution and diversification....
With the move to distributed, component based systems involving reuse of components and services, emergent, system-wide properties, including safety and security in particular, are...
Middleware enables distributed components to interact with each others in diverse and complex manners. Such interactions should be modeled at architecture level for controlling th...