Code clone has been regarded as one of factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a code fragment in a source code that is identical or similar to anot...
The Unified Software Development Process (USDP) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) have been now generally accepted as the standard methodology and modeling language for developin...
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...
A requirements analysis step plays a significant role on the development of information systems, and in this step we various kinds of abstract models of the systems (called requir...
—We have defined a software component model which specifies components and composition operators. These operators coordinate and encapsulate concurrency between components. In ...