Software architectural design has an enormous effect on downstream software artifacts. Decomposition of functions for the final system is one of the critical steps in software arch...
Reverse engineering methods produce different descriptions of software architectures. In this work we analyze and define the task of exploring and comparing these descriptions. ...
Software architecture practice is highly complex. Software architects interact with business as well as technical aspects of systems, often embedded in large and changing organiza...
Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
An application framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. It is shown how the specialization interface ("hot spots...