The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
We propose a mechanism for object access control which is based on the UML. Specifically, we propose use of ownership and immutability constraints on UML associations and verifica...
Abstract—Reliably predicting software defects is one of software engineering’s holy grails. Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of bug prediction approaches var...
Modeling object-oriented applications using collaborations and roles is now well accepted. Collaboration-based or role-based designs decompose an application into tasks performed ...
Most previously published case studies in architecture recovery have been performed on statically linked software systems. Due to the increase in use of middleware technologies, s...