Effective development of nontrivial systems of collaborative information agents requires that an in-depth analysis is made resulting in (1) specification of requirements at differe...
The identification of occurrences of design patterns in programs can help maintainers to understand the program design and implementation. It can also help them to make informed ch...
Security patterns capture best practice on secure software design and development. They document typical solutions to security problems. To ensure security, large software system ...
Software architects have techniques to deal with many quality attributes such as performance, reliability, and maintainability. Usability, however, has traditionally been concerned...
This paper describes the basis for a suite of tools that let the programmer work in terms of design patterns and source code simultaneously. It first introduces a language for de...