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Simplifying Maintenance by Application of Architectural Services

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014 (ICCSA 2014)

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Software maintenance is the most difficult and extremely expensive activity of lifecycle of software systems. We show that maintenance cost estimation depends on many factors that are not taken into account by widely used maintenance cost estimation methods. The factors include variants of systems architecture, especially service- and component-oriented ones, variants of software development processes, communication means, and the software artifact maintenance duration and history. We present an analysis of reasons and sources of maintenance effort needs. We show that the maintenance issues and effort can be substantially reduced in systems having a special form of service-oriented architecture — software confederations.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Král

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

    Michal Žemlička

  3. Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University, Thákurova 9, 160 00, Praha 6, Czech Republic

    Michal Žemlička

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  3. Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  4. DICAR, Polytecnico di Bari, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo Torre

  5. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Jorge Gustavo Rocha  & Maria Irene Falcão  & 

  6. Monash University, 3800,, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    David Taniar

  7. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, 813-8503, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

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Král, J., Žemlička, M. (2014). Simplifying Maintenance by Application of Architectural Services. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014. ICCSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8583. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09156-3_34

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