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Software engineers are facing increasing pressure from clients to provide architectural solutions that can be built with today’s requirements and be flexible enough to meet future needs. It is common practice in the domain of software development to see customers constantly modifying and expanding the requirements of the future system. Faced with the reality of ever changing requirements, it is desirable to use an architecture that allows for easy modifications of existing functionalities and easy adoption of new ones .

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Papajorgji, P.J., Pardalos, P.M. (2014). The Plug and Play Architecture. In: Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 93. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7463-1_12

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