Markup languages, representations, schemas, and tools have significantly increased the ability for organizations to share their information. Languages such as the Extensible Marku...
Quantitative prediction of quality properties (i.e. extrafunctional properties such as performance, reliability, and cost) of software architectures during design supports a syste...
Anne Martens, Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker, Ralf...
Usability-supporting architectural patterns (USAPs) were developed as a way to explicitly connect the needs of architecturally-sensitive usability concerns to the design of softwa...
Bonnie E. John, Len Bass, Elspeth Golden, Pia Stol...
This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design. This method was developed to provi...
Rick Kazman, Mark H. Klein, Mario Barbacci, Thomas...
A pass-through server such as an NFS server backed by an iSCSI[1] storage server only passes data between the storage server and NFS clients. Ideally it should require at most one...