This paper describes how design information, in our case UML specifications, can be used to evolve a software system and validate the consistency of such an evolution. This work c...
: Nowadays information systems are required to adapt themselves dynamically to the ever changing environment and requirements. Architectural reflection represents a principled mean...
During software evolution, several different facets of the system need to be related to one another at multiple levbstraction. Current software evolution tools have limited capabi...
Large, complex and long-lived software need to be upgraded at runtime. Addition, removal and replacement of a software component are the elementary evolution operations that have ...
Software modularization activities remain without the guidance of formal theories and models. According to Baldwin and Clark's [1] design rule theory (DRT) , modular architec...
Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan MacCormack...