Integrating a system of disparate components to form a single application is still a daunting, high risk task, especially for components with heterogeneous communication expectati...
Michelle Hepner, Rose F. Gamble, Manasi Kelkar, Le...
Abstract. [Context and motivation] With increasing use of software, quality attributes grow in relative importance. Robustness is a software quality attribute that has not received...
Abstract. Many software architecture evaluation methods, proposed by the research community, have a common problem of engaging the same architects to perform architecture design an...
Most security protocols share a similar set of algorithms and functions and exhibit common sequences and patterns in the way they operate. These observations led us to propose a u...
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...