Architectural description languages are a useful tool for modeling complex systems at a high level of abstraction. If based on formal methods, they can also serve for enabling the...
This work presents the core ideas for an approach that enables index tuning with no human intervention at all. SQL statements submitted to the database are monitored and indices a...
For any non-trivial software project, architectural drift is a well-known problem. Over time, the design rules and guidelines governing the software project are no longer obeyed, ...
Andy Kellens, Kris De Schutter, Theo D'Hondt, Luc ...
Functional requirements contain, and systems exhibit, the behavior summarized below.Despite the advances in software engineering since 1968, how to go from a set of functional req...
Rearchitecturing large software systems becomes more and more complex after years of development and a growing size of the code base. Nonetheless, a constant adaptation of software...