Scale-Free Model in Software Engineering: A New Design Method

Along with software systems become larger and more complex, engineers need better ways to design and maintain these systems. We apply complex network theory into software engineering for this purpose. Recently researchers have found most of complex systems comply with a scale-free network model. This paper presents an initial research into the small-world and scale-free phenomenon within the development of a three-dimensional visualization platform, Total Discovery of Space, which has applied to practical aerospace engineering successfully. It is expected that this model will be practical for software engineering.