Abstract: The evaluation of software architectures is crucial to ensure that the design of software systems meets the requirements. We present a generic methodical framework that e...
Steffen Becker, Viktoria Firus, Simon Giesecke, Wi...
It has been observed that even highly optimized software programs perform "redundant" computations during their execution, due to the nature (statistics) of the values a...
— Software maintenance tools for program analysis and refactoring rely on a meta-model capturing the relevant properties of programs. However, what is considered relevant may cha...
: The decision of using existing software components versus building from scratch custom software is one of the most complex and important choices of the entire development/integra...
Sergio Areias, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Ran...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components are built to be used as black boxes that cannot be modified. The specific context in which these COTS components are employed is...