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A variety of sources have noted that a substantial proportion of non trivial software systems fail due to unhindered architectural erosion. This design deterioration leads to low maintainability, poor testability and reduced development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Frederik Schmidt , Stephen G. MacDonell , Andy M. Connor

Computer systems are so complex, so they are usually designed and analyzed in terms of layers of abstraction. Complexity is still a challenge facing logical reasoning tools that are used to find software design flaws and implementation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ramy Shahin

Despite much progress, developing a pervasive computing application remains a challenge because of a lack of conceptual frameworks and supporting tools. This challenge involves coping with heterogeneous devices, overcoming the intricacies…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Damien Cassou , Julien Bruneau , Charles Consel , Emilie Balland

Traditional self-adaptive systems automatically reconfigure existing components in response to changing requirements, but provide limited support for the generation of novel functionalities. The software generation capabilities of large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Md Asif Iqbal Fahim , Oluwadamilola Adebayo , Alessio Ferrari

The rapid development of AI and LLMs has driven new methods of SDLC, in which a large portion of code, technical, and business documentation is generated automatically. However, since there is no single architectural framework that can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Oleg Grynets , Vasyl Lyashkevych

Modern systems evolve in unpredictable environments and have to continuously adapt their behavior to changing conditions. The "DReAM" (Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture Modeling) framework, has been designed for modeling reconfigurable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Rocco De Nicola , Alessandro Maggi , Joseph Sifakis

The traditional approach in HEP analysis software is to loop over every event and every object via the ROOT framework. This method follows an imperative paradigm, in which the code is tied to the storage format and steps of execution. A…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-09-08 Mason Proffitt , Gordon Watts

Software architecture knowledge transfer is essential for software development, but related documentation is often incomplete or ambiguous, making oral explanations a common means. Our broader aim is to explore how such explanations might…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Satrio Adi Rukmono , Filip Zamfirov , Lina Ochoa , Floris Pex , Michel Chaudron

Enterprise applications are often built as service-oriented architectures, where the individual services are designed to perform specific functions and interact with each other by means of well-defined APIs (Application Programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Valentino Picotti , Olaf Zimmermann

In this paper we suggest an architecture for a software agent which operates a physical device and is capable of making observations and of testing and repairing the device's components. We present simplified definitions of the notions of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marcello Balduccini , Michael Gelfond

We present Executable Abstract Programs and analyse their role for software development and documentation. The intuitive understanding of these programs fits the computational mindset of software system engineers and is supported by a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Egon Boerger

Software engineering research has focused on automating maintenance and evolution processes to reduce costs and improve reliability. The emergence of foundation models (FMs) with strong code understanding and reasoning abilities offers new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas , David Nader Palacio , Denys Poshyvanyk

Combining component & connector architecture descriptionlanguageswithcomponentbehaviormodelinglanguages enables modeling great parts of software architectures platformindependently. Nontrivial systems typically contain components with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Jan O. Ringert , Bernhard Rumpe , Andreas Wortmann

Producing a good software design involves not only writing a definition that satisfies the syntax of the chosen language or structural constraints of a design paradigm. It also involves upholding a variety of expectations about the behavior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mary Shaw

The Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) is an architecture description language for design of cyber-physical systems--machines controlled by software. The AADL standard, SAE International AS5506D, describes Run-Time Services…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Brian R Larson , Ehsan Ahmad

Changes, they use to say, are the only constant in life. Everything changes rapidly around us, and more and more key to survival is the ability to rapidly adapt to changes. This consideration applies to many aspects of our lives. Strangely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Vincenzo De Florio , Chris Blondia

For a software system, its architecture is typically defined as the fundamental organization of the system incorporated by its components, their relationships to one another and their environment, and the principles governing their design.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-03-22 Robert Dabrowski , Krzysztof Stencel , Grzegorz Timoszuk

Architectural erosion is a recurrent problem in software evolution. Despite this fact, the process is usually tackled in ad hoc ways, without adequate tool support at the architecture level. To address this shortcoming, this paper presents…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Ricardo Terra , Marco Tulio Valente , Roberto Bigonha , Krzysztof Czarnecki

The ability to independently deploy parts of a software system is one of the cornerstones of modern software development, and allows for these parts to evolve independently and at different speeds. A major challenge of such independent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Holger Knoche , Wilhelm Hasselbring

We present an embedded DSL to support adaptation-based programming (ABP) in Haskell. ABP is an abstract model for defining adaptive values, called adaptives, which adapt in response to some associated feedback. We show how our design…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Tim Bauer , Martin Erwig , Alan Fern , Jervis Pinto