Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products are increasingly used as software components in large-scale systems. We had proposed an approach for distributed COTS software int...
The design and development of complex software systems is a difficult task, and it is not easy to ensure the quality of a developed software. The paper presents an architectural ...
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...