: Today software systems have to face frequent requests for change during their whole lifetime. It is very important that they can adapt to the frequently changing needs and are fl...
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...
Abstract. Numerous design decisions are made in model-based software development which often are not documented explicitly. Hence, the design knowledge is 'in the designers mi...
Interoperability problems arise when complex software systems are constructed by integrating distinct, and often heterogeneous, components. By performing interoperability analysis...
Software architectural design has an enormous effect on downstream software artifacts. Decomposition of functions for the final system is one of the critical steps in software arch...