Posing speculative questions about a software system is an important yet often unsupported activity. Current impact analysis techniques tend to focus upon the functionality of the...
Jane Cleland-Huang, Carl K. Chang, Gaurav Sethi, K...
As the effective limits of frequency and instruction level parallelism have been reached, the strategy of microprocessor vendors has changed to increase the number of processing ...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
During their usage, software systems have to be changed constantly. If such changes are implemented in an incomplete or inconsistent way a loss of architectural quality will occur...
Projects are the executors of organizational change and hence in charge of the managed evolution of the application landscape in the context of enterprise architecture (EA) managem...
Sabine Buckl, Alexander M. Ernst, Florian Matthes,...
This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...