This paper shows how an architecture description notation that has support for timed events can be used to provide a meta-language for specifying exact communication semantics. Th...
Many architecture description languages (ADLs) have been proposed to model, analyze, configure, and deploy complex software systems. To face this diversity, extensible ADLs (or AD...
Jackson’s Problem Frames provide a means of analysing and decomposing problems. They emphasise the world outside the computer helping the developer to focus on the problem domai...
Lucia Rapanotti, Jon G. Hall, Michael Jackson, Bas...
To reduce the effort spent on system comprehension during software maintenance, easy access to different type of information describing the system features is necessary. This is u...
The software industry is increasingly facing the issues of understanding and maintaining a particular type of software systems, namely distributed systems. While these systems are...