This study questions the traditional view of software architecture as a specification that needs only be understood by software architects and engineers. Based on an intensive stu...
Abstract. Product family architectures need to be captured much like “regular” software architectures. Unfortunately, representations for product family architectures are scarc...
Quantitative techniques have traditionally been used to assess software architectures. We have found that early in the development process there is often insufficient quantitative...
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...