A scientific explanatory project, part-whole explanation, and a kind of science, part-whole science are premised on identifying, investigating, and using parts and wholes. In the ...
Building software systems out of pre-fabricated components is a very attractive vision. Distributed Component Platforms (DCP) and their visual development environments bring this v...
Today’s module systems do not effectively support information hiding in the presence of shared mutable objects, causing serious problems in the development and evolution of larg...
The role-based access control (RBAC) has significantly simplified the management of users and permissions in computing systems. In dynamic environments, systems are usually unde...
The comprehensive understanding of today’s software systems is a daunting activity, because of the sheer size and complexity that such systems exhibit. Moreover, software system...