This paper reports the results of exploratory research to develop a pilot pattern language for systems engineers at BAE SYSTEMS. The pattern language was designed to encapsulate k...
Legacy applications are still widely spread. If a need to change deployment or update its functionality arises, it becomes difficult to estimate the performance impact of such modi...
Steffen Becker, Michael Hauck, Mircea Trifu, Klaus...
This paper presents a model of change propagation during software maintenance and evolution. Change propagation is modeled as a sequence of snapshots, where each snapshot represen...
For the past 40 years, the techniques, processes and methods of software development have been dominated by supply-side issues, giving rise to a software industry oriented towards...
Keith H. Bennett, Paul J. Layzell, David Budgen, P...
Studying industrial systems by simulation enables the designer to study the dynamic behaviour and to determine some characteristics of the system. Unfortunately, simulation also h...