Abstract. An architectural bad smell is a commonly (although not always intentionally) used set of architectural design decisions that negatively impacts system lifecycle propertie...
Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, Nen...
The analysis, and eventual approval or rejection, of new enterprise information technology (IT) initiatives often proceeds on the basis of informal estimates of return on investme...
Abstract Many Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) methodologies incorporate a modeldriven approach. Model Driven Engineering is based on three main ideas: models are the “first-class citi...
A functional aspect is an aspect that has the semantics of a transformation; it is a function that maps a program to an advised program. Functional aspects are composed by functio...
During maintenance, systems are updated to correct faults, improve functionality, and adapt the software to changes in its execution environment. The typical softwareupdate proces...