— One might expect that after nearly 50 years of research in robot manipulation and mobile robotics the architectural design of robot systems has converged to a small set of best...
During the creation of a software architecture, the architects and stakeholders take a lot of decisions. Many of these decisions can be directly related to functional or quality r...
Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on ne...
The New Oxford Dictionary of English A powerful and well-chosen metaphor can speak a thousand words in terms of the insight it gives to the audience; a poor one can hide and confu...
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...