Component interoperability has become an important concern as companies migrate legacy systems, integrate COTS products, and assemble modules from disparate sources into a single ...
Uncovering, modelling, and understanding architectural level dependencies of software systems is a key task for software maintainers. However, current dependency analysis techniqu...
Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
Jackson’s Problem Frames provide a means of analysing and decomposing problems. They emphasise the world outside the computer helping the developer to focus on the problem domai...
Lucia Rapanotti, Jon G. Hall, Michael Jackson, Bas...
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...