Abstract. New generation network services must be deployed and managed according to the specific customer requirements. In this context, service providers must devise a way to des...
In a service-oriented architecture, software services interact by means of message exchanges that follow certain patterns documented in the form of behavioural interfaces. As any s...
The high competition among network providers places a demand for new ways to design network services with near zero development time, low cost, and high degrees of customization an...
Web services are often employed to create wide distributed evolvable applications from existing components that constitute a service-based software system. ServiceOriented Archite...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...