Understanding and modeling the variability of an existing system is a highly critical and challenging task when adopting a product line approach. Only little guidance is available...
This paper describes an architecture analysis tool-set supporting the evolutionary improvement of the software architecture of an existing medical imaging system. The toolset has ...
Abstract. Ubiquitous computing is a challenge for the design of middleware. The reasons are resource constraints, mobility, heterogeneity, etc., just to name a few. We argue that s...
As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...
Abstract. The notion of feature is heavily used in Software Engineering, especially for software product lines. However, this notion appears to be confusing, mixing various aspects...
Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Scho...