This paper elaborates on the application of some aspects of robust systems control theory to the management of uncertainty and risk in distributed and complex design processes, ha...
Many reverse-engineering tools have been developed to detract representations from source code. Yet, most of these tools completely ignore recovery of the all-important rationale ...
We previously developed a component-oriented model that combines ideas from self-organizing architectures and from design by contract to address the complexity of design in multi-t...
Reimer Behrends, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Laura K. Di...
Component-Based Development (CBD) is gaining popularity as an effective reuse technology. Components in CBD are mainly for interorganizational reuse, rather than intra-organization...
Because of the increasingly diverse and dynamic environments in which they must operate, modern middleware platforms need to explicitly support modifiability. Modifiability should...