The use of formal model based (FMB) methods to evaluate the quality of the components is an important research area. Except for a growing number of exceptions, FMB methods are sti...
Hye Yeon Kim, Kshamta Jerath, Frederick T. Sheldon
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Inconsistency between metadata and code customizations is a major concern in modern, configurable enterprise systems. The increasing reliance on metadata, in the form of XML files,...
Software product line engineering is mostly about the systematic management of commonality and variability between product line members. The effectiveness of this approach thus ve...
This paper discusses the current resurgence of interest in the Linda coordination language for parallel and distributed programming. Particularly in the Java field, there have be...