Abstract--Component-based development focuses on compose and composition: abstract components (as wished) must be searched for and matched to existing component (as found). This se...
Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
Ciaran O'Reilly, Philip J. Morrow, David W. Bustar...
Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system's arc...
Abstract. This paper deals with self-adapting software that is structured according to a control theory architecture. Such software contains, in addition to its main function, two ...
Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Kevin M. Passino, Kenneth Bac...
Certain design fragments in software architectures can have a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we introduce the concept of architectural “bad smells,”...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...