Functional Size Measures are often used for effort estimation. However, these measures do not take into account the amount and complexity of elaboration required, concentrating in...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style to reuse and integrate subsystems in existing systems for designing new applications. Each application is designed in...
We present a tool for component system design in the UML. The tool supports an internal process model for graphical specifications. The model is used to guarantee consistency of ...
The alignment between business processes and software is inadequately supported in conceptual modelling, although business processes are often the starting point for software devel...
The development of a family of applications in a domain can be greatly eased if patterns in the domain are systematically reused. Systematic use of such a pattern can be achieved ...