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...
We present a case study on the design of a heterogeneous architecture for MPEG-2 video decoding. The primary objective of the case study is the validation of the SPADE methodology...
Pieter van der Wolf, Paul Lieverse, Mudit Goel, Da...
One of the challenging problems for software developers is guaranteeing that a system as built is consistent with its architectural design. In this paper we describe a technique t...
Hong Yan, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl, Jonath...
of modelling abstractions to map from items in the real-world to objects in the computational domain is oth for the effective implementation of abstract problem solutions and for ...
Mariusz Nowostawski, Geoff Bush, Martin K. Purvis,...
As an object-oriented system evolves, its architecture tends to drift away from the original design. Knowledge of how the system has changed at coarse-grained levels is key to und...