The application of patterns is used as a foundation for many central design decisions in software architecture, but because of the informal nature of patterns, these design decisi...
Uwe Zdun, Paris Avgeriou, Carsten Hentrich, Schahr...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
Software modularization activities remain without the guidance of formal theories and models. According to Baldwin and Clark's [1] design rule theory (DRT) , modular architec...
Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan MacCormack...
Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific service...
The growing size and complexity of systems has revealed many shortcomings of existing software engineering practices, for example, lack of scalability. This in turn raised interes...