The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm promises to enable software vendors to compose software systems using services purchased from various suppliers. In this paper, we...
Jan Christian Lang, Thomas Widjaja, Peter Buxmann,...
Conceptual design involves requirements analysis, functional specification, and architectural design. It remains informal and poorly understood. We studied the conceptual design a...
During their usage, software systems have to be changed constantly. If such changes are implemented in an incomplete or inconsistent way a loss of architectural quality will occur...
Building software systems with reusable components brings many advantages. The development becomes more efficient, the reliability of the products is enhanced, and the maintenance...
We present Galileo, an innovative engineering modeling and analysis tool built using an approach we call packageoriented programming (POP). Galileo represents an ongoing evaluatio...