Design patterns document expert design experience in software system development. They have been applied in many existing software systems. However, pattern information is general...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
Abstract. As software systems become bigger and more complex, software developers need to cope with a growing amount of information and knowledge. The knowledge generated during th...
Recovering the architecture is the first step towards reengineering a software system. Many reverse engineering tools use top-down exploration as a way of providing a visual and ...
In this paper we are trying to clarify, with the aid of some semiotic notions, the confusions that lie around the widely used terms “analysis model” and “design model” in s...