Increasingly, applications are being built by combining existing software components. For the most part, a software developer can treat components as black-boxes. However, for som...
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Web services and service-oriented architecture are emerging technologies that are changing the way we develop and use computer software. Due to the standardization of web services...
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Composition of requirements models in Software Product Line (SPL) development enables stakeholders to derive the requirements of target software products and, very important, to re...
Retrofitting security implementations to a released software-intensive system or to a system under development may require significant architectural or coding changes. These late...
Industrial systems are examples of complex and often long-lived systems in which software is playing an increasingly important role. Their architectures play a crucial role in mai...