VL
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Visual representations are widely used to describe modern-day software systems, but, in most cases, they lack rigour. This paper addresses the problems of formality, rigour and co...
JOT
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
The separation of concerns (SOC), as a conceptual tool, enables us to manage the complexity of software systems that we develop. The benefits of this paradigm, such as reuse, enhan...
LOBJET
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Coping with huge amounts of data is one of the major problems in the context of software evolution. Current approaches reduce this complexity by filtering out irrelevant informatio...
ASE
1999
13 years 4 months ago
1999
Legacy software systems present a high level of entropy combined with imprecise documentation. This makes their maintenance more difficult, more time consuming, and costlier. In or...
ENTCS
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Component-oriented software development is becoming more and more important for the production of large-scale software applications. Today's systems are constructed by combin...
ANSOFT
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
Scenario profiles are used increasingly often for the assessment of quality attributes during the architectural design of software systems. However, the definition of scenario pro...
TOPNOC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract. We consider software systems consisting of a single component running one sequential process only. We model such software systems as a special class of transition systems...
INFSOF
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Creating and maintaining software systems is a knowledge intensive task. One needs to have a good understanding of the application domain, the problem to solve and all its require...
SOSYM
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Amodelisasimplifiedrepresentationofanaspect of the world for a specific purpose. In complex systems, many aspects are to be handled, from architectural aspects to dynamic behavior,...
ITSSA
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
: The software industry is faced with the fast growing complexity of IT infrastructures. This makes manual administration increasingly difficult and appears to be the limiting fact...