Mae - A system model and environment for managing architectural evolution

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 240-276

  Roshandel, Roshanak ^a,c   Van Der Hoek, André ^b,d   Mikic Rakic, Marija ^a,c   Medvidovic, Nenad ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Henry Salvatori Computer Center 300 ^*  (United States)

^d Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Design environment; Evolution; Mae; System model

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 5444253327     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1018210.1018213     Document Type: Article

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