Social networks are a hot topic in the enterprise these days, despite being only one type of network deployed in a networked business. Many individuals and companies are talking about creating a ...

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Structured software is based on a plan that considers the specific requirements of a system and translates them into loosely coupled components. In collaborative software development, development ...

Software engineering continues to evolve as developers face increasingly complex systems and user requirements. Among the foundational elements that guide elegant solutions to recurring problems, ...

The last two articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we have seen a need in modern embedded systems to separate software architecture into ...

This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...