Software architecture and design are usually modeled and represented by informal diagrams, such as architecture diagrams and UML diagrams. While these graphic notations are easy t...
Various forms of agreements naturally arise in the service provider model as well as in multi-party computing models such as business-to-business, utility and grid computing. The r...
Abstract. During an architectural evolution of a component-based software, certain quality attributes may be weakened. This is due to the lack of an explicit definition of the link...
—In a software project, outsourcing the development of a particular functionality, reusing a part in another software, or handing-over a part of the code to a new team member req...
In component-based product populations, variability has to be described at the component level to be able to benefit from a product family approach. As a consequence, composition ...