Software developers spend most of their time modifying and maintaining existing products.
This is because systems, and consequently their design, are in perpetual evolution before …

Abstract We describe the Design Pattern Modelling Language, a notation supporting the
specification of design pattern solutions and their instantiation into UML design models …

Feature identification is a well-known technique to identify subsets of a program source code
activated when exercising a functionality. Several approaches have been proposed to …

Design patterns ease the designing, understanding, and re-engineering of software.
Achieving a well-designed piece of software requires a deep understanding and a good …

Abstract Design Patterns are now widely accepted as a useful concept for guiding and
documenting the design of object-oriented software systems. Still the UML is ill-equipped for …

Feature identification is a technique to identify the source code constructs activated when
exercising one of the features of a program. We propose new statistical analyses of static …

Design patterns are generic design solutions that can be applied and composed in different
applications where pattern-related information is generally implicit in the Unified Modeling …

UML 2 semantics and applications UML 2 SEMANTICS AND APPLICATIONS Page 2 UML 2
SEMANTICS AND APPLICATIONS Edited by KEVIN LANO A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC …

Design Patterns have been quickly adopted by the object-oriented community, in particular
since the publication of “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” …

Process algebras are proposed as a foundation for aspect-oriented programming. A
particular process algebra is described, and programs illustrating its use in programming are …