Developers undertaking a pragmatic reuse task must collect and reason about information that is spread throughout the source code of a system before they can understand the scope ...
Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...
: Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) provide an abstract representation of software systems. Achieving a concrete mapping of such representation into the implementation is o...
Data compression algorithms change frequently, and obsolete decoders do not always run on new hardware and operating systems, threatening the long-term usability of content archiv...
Modelling architectural information is particularly important because of the acknowledged crucial role of software architecture in raising the level of abstraction during developme...