A software environment for problem-oriented systems

Hierarchical Clustering of Distributed Object-Oriented Software Systems: A Generic Solution for Software-Hardware Mismatch Problem

During the software lifecycle, the software structure is subject to many changes in order to fulfill the customer’s requirements. In Distributed Object Oriented systems, software engineers face many challenges to solve the software-hardware mismatch problem in which the software structure does not match the customer’s underlying hardware. A major design problem of Object Oriented software syste...

Problem-oriented software engineering

This paper introduces a formal conceptual framework for software development, based on a problem-oriented perspective that stretches from requirements engineering through to program code. In a software problem the goal is to develop a machine—that is, a computer executing the software to be developed—that will ensure satisfaction of the requirement in the problem world. We regard development st...

A partition-based algorithm for clustering large-scale software systems

Clustering techniques are used to extract the structure of software for understanding, maintaining, and refactoring. In the literature, most of the proposed approaches for software clustering are divided into hierarchical algorithms and search-based techniques. In the former, clustering is a process of merging (splitting) similar (non-similar) clusters. These techniques suffered from the drawba...

A Domain-Oriented Software Development Environment for Cardiology

An Object-oriented Infrastructure for a Cooperative Software Development Environment

Group support systems impose specific requirements on the underlying infrastructure regarding communication, configuration and data management. In this paper we concentrate on computer-supported cooperative work in the area of software development. We present the main principles of an experimental toolset for cooperative software development, outline specific demands on the underlying infrastru...