On the quantitative analysis of architecture stability in aspectual decompositions

7th IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-38

  Molesini, Ambra ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Von Flach G Chavez, Christina ^c   Batista, Thais ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARCHITECTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; ARCHITECTURAL STYLES; ARCHITECTURE LEVEL; ASPECT-ORIENTED COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CROSSCUTTING CONCERNS; EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE; MAINTENANCE TASKS; MULTI AGENTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 49949086543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WICSA.2008.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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