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...
Developing large multi-agent systems is a complex task involving the processes of the requirement, architecture, design and implementation of these systems. In particular, the arc...
Engine Control Systems (ECS) for automobiles have numerous variants for many manufactures and different markets. To improve development efficiency, exploiting ECS commonalities an...
—Ultra large scale (ULS) systems are future software intensive systems that have billions of lines of code, composed of heterogeneous, changing, inconsistent and independent elem...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...