The definition and understanding of software architectures and architecture views still shows considerable disagreement in the software engineering community. This paper argues th...
Modern distributed software applications generally operate in complex and heterogeneous computing environments (like the World Wide Web). Different paradigms (client-server, mobili...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components are built to be used as black boxes that cannot be modified. The specific context in which these COTS components are employed is...
When software projects evolve their actual implementation and their intended architecture may drift apart resulting in problems for further maintenance. As a countermeasure it is g...
Abstract. The build architecture of legacy C/C++ software systems, groups program files in directories to represent logical components. The interfaces of these components are loos...
Homayoun Dayani-Fard, Yijun Yu, John Mylopoulos, P...