Abstract. Quality goals have to be under a special consideration during software architectural design. Evolvability constitutes a quality goal with a special relevance for business...
A key objective for ubiquitous environments is to enable system interoperability between system’s components that are highly heterogeneous. In particular, the challenge is to emb...
Abstract. The importance of modelling the dynamic architectural characteristics of software systems has long been recognised. However, the nature of the dynamic architectural chara...
Modern middleware platforms provide the applications deployed on top of them with facilities for their adaptation. However, the level of adaptation support provided by the state-of...
Abstract Architectural patterns are often combined with other, relevant architectural patterns during software architecture design. However, combining patterns effectively remains ...