Assessing Benefits of Modularity in Missions and System of Systems

Leads

Navindran Davendralingam

Research Science, Amazon Inc.

Cesare Guariniello

Purdue University

Lu Xiao

Stevens Institute of Technology

Publications

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21. Mikkola , J.H. ( 2000 ). Modularization assessment of product architecture . DRUID Winter Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark .

22. Mo , R. , Cai , Y. , Kazman , R. et al. ( 2016 ). Decoupling level: a new metric for architectural maintenance complexity . In: 2016 IEEE/ACM 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , 499 – 510 . IEEE .

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30. Valetto , G. , Helander , M. , Ehrlich , K. et al. ( 2007 ). Using software repositories to investigate socio-technical congruence in development projects . In: Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07: ICSE Workshops 2007) , 25 . IEEE .

31. Wang , X. , Xiao , L. , Yang , Y. et al. ( 2018 ). Identifying TraIn: a neglected form of socio-technical incongruence . In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings , 358 – 359 .

32. Wong , S. , Cai , Y. , Kim , M. , and Dalton , M. ( 2011 ). Detecting software modularity violations . In: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering , 411 – 420 .

33. Xiao , L. , Pennock , M.J. , Cardoso , J.L. , and Wang , X. ( 2020 ). A case study on modularity violations in cyber-physical systems . Systems Engineering 23 ( 3 ): 338 – 349 .