Although component software has emerged as one of the most significant and commercially successful technologies of the past few years, few operating systems are designed to host a...
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...
Studying how a software system has evolved over time is difficult, time consuming, and costly; existing techniques are often limited in their applicability, are hard to extend, a...
Software-intensive systems evolve continuously under the pressure of new and changing requirements, generally leading to an increase in overall system complexity. In this respect,...
In a component-based software system the components are specified, designed and implemented with the intention to be reused, and are assembled in various contexts in order to pro...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Andrea Polini, Patrizio Pelli...