A common belief is that software designs decay as systems evolve. This research examines the extent to which software designs actually decay by studying the aging of design patter...
Government bureaucracies are both extremely complex and long-lived, constantly evolving to reflect and influence their ever changing cultural and physical environments. Software s...
It is commonly agreed that a self-adaptive software system is one that can modify itself at run-time due to changes in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it ...
Several recent trends have changed the usage and users of schemas beyond those of a database administrator’s tool for describing database contents. Distribution of computing pow...
Despite tremendous debate and policy interest in software piracy, the accuracy of piracy statistics compiled by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has been accepted at face valu...