Long-lived, architecture-based software systems are increasingly important. Effective process support for these systems depends upon recognising their compositional nature and the ...
R. Mark Greenwood, Dharini Balasubramaniam, Sorana...
Software evolution in a cooperative environment, where a pool of maintainers/developers contribute to the overall system changes, is challanging due to several factors, such as th...
To facilitate the design of large-scale, self-adaptive systems, we have developed the Port-Based Adaptable Agent Architecture. This distributed, multiagent architecture allows syst...
Kevin R. Dixon, Theodore Q. Pham, Pradeep K. Khosl...
Abstract. Automata-based interface and protocol specifications provide an elegant framework to capture and automatically verify the interactive behavior of component-based software...
Heterogeneously-licensed systems pose new challenges to analysts and system architects. Appropriate intellectual property rights must be available for the installed system, but wi...
Thomas A. Alspaugh, Hazeline U. Asuncion, Walt Sca...