A conceptual reengineering framework is presented that proposes extract, transform and rewrite as three characteristic steps to be performed within a reengineering cycle. The cycl...
The Architecture Planning Group (APG) was chartered by IEEE's Software Engineering Standards Committee to set a direction for incorporating architectural thinking into IEEE s...
Walter J. Ellis, Richard F. Hilliard II, Thomas F....
There is no clear distinction between service-oriented systems (SOS) and component-based systems (CBS). However, there are several characteristics that could let one consider SOS ...
This paper addresses the question of whether the reverse engineering of legacy systems is doomed to failure. Our position is that the answer is highly dependent on the specific go...
In this paper, we introduce SCACS, a Social Context-Aware Communication System that facilitates face-to-face communications between old-timers and newcomers in a research communit...