The architecture is the fundamental framework for designing and implementing large scale software, and the ability to trace and control its evolution is essential. However, many t...
According to Parnas's information hiding principle and Baldwin and Clark's design rule theory, the key step to decomposing a system into modules is to determine the desi...
Sunny Huynh, Yuanfang Cai, Yuanyuan Song, Kevin J....
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. Software architectures are engineering artifacts which provide high-level descriptions of complex systems. Certain recent architecture description languages (Adls) allow ...
This paper outlines an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects as abstractions to capture social ...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...