Software systems of today are characterized by the increasing size, complexity, distribution and heterogeneity. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requi...
: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have been established as an IT strategy to support the on demand goal of business agility. Web services standards and their implementations ...
This paper applies Lehman's theory of software evolution to analyse the characteristics of web-based applications and identifies the essences and incidents that cause difficu...
As the enabling technologies of autonomic computing continue to advance, it is imperative for researchers to exchange the details of their proposed techniques for designing, devel...
Tariq M. King, Alain E. Ramirez, Peter J. Clarke, ...
The construction and maintenance of large and complex software systems depend on the existence of global principles describing the structure and the interaction among its various ...