This paper briefly justifies and outlines initial plans for an empirical investigation into the evolution of component-intensive software systems. Questions to be addressed include whether the findings and observations of traditional software evolution studies garnered over the last 30 years or so, and most recently as part of the FEAST projects, apply to and are relevant in the context of comp...

With the increasing demand for astronomical observations, telescope systems are becoming increasingly complex. Thus, observatory control software needs to be more intelligent. It has each instrument inside observatory, finish observational tasks autonomously, and report information users if needed. We developed a distributed autonomous framework named Remote Autonomous Control System 2nd (RACS2...

The article analyzes the formation of Turkic political elite, their features and position in complex large-scale management system Golden Horde.The administrative structure Horde had its own characteristics comparison with all states that emerged after collapse Mongol Empire. Including active role nomadic Turkic-Mongolian aristocrats administration social life, was reflected ranks military aris...