— Software as a Service (SaaS) and the possibility to compose Web services provisioned over the Internet are important assets for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, ...
Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained elements and their interconnection structure. Architecture description languages (ADLs) ...
Architecture patterns are an important tool in architectural design. However, while many architecture patterns have been identified, there is little in-depth understanding of thei...
Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
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While software architecture has become an increasingly important research topic in recent years, insufficient attention has been paid to methods for evaluation of these architectu...
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