The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...
Abstract. An architectural bad smell is a commonly (although not always intentionally) used set of architectural design decisions that negatively impacts system lifecycle propertie...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
Software components are increasingly assembled from other components. Each component may further depend on others, and each may have multiple active versions. The total number of ...
Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman, Atif M. Memon, Adam A....
The paper explores the nature of professional intellect and the requirements for managing it, an area acknowledged as being under-researched. Five case studies in the professional ...
Over the past years, the reengineering of legacy software systems to object oriented platforms has received significant attention. In this paper, we present a generic re-engineeri...