— The paper presents an approach that combines conceptual and evolutionary techniques to support change impact analysis in source code. Information Retrieval (IR) is used to deri...
Huzefa H. Kagdi, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk,...
Abstract. A mathematical semantics is proposed for the notion of architectural connector, in the style defined by Allen and Garlan, that builds on Goguen’s categorical approach t...
The alignment of the software architecture and the functional requirements of a system is a demanding task because of the difficulty in tracing design elements to requirements. Th...
Modern software systems are highly interconnected and have been under constant change for many years. IT decision makers find it difficult to predict and plan change projects due ...
With the ongoing trend towards the globalization of software systems and their development, components in these systems might not only work together, but may end up evolving indep...