Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
Design patterns encode proven solutions to recurring design problems. To use a design pattern properly, we need to 1) understand the design problem the pattern resolves, 2) recogn...
Who uses requirements engineering and design methodologies besides the people who invented them? Are researchers - at least - actually trying to use them in real-world complex proj...
Abstract. A reference architecture integrates a set of architectural patterns that have proven their value for a family of applications. Such family of applications is characterize...
Construction companies employ CAD software during the planning phase, but what is finally built often does not match the original plan. The procedure of validating the model is c...
Pierre Georgel, Pierre Schroeder, Selim Benhimane,...