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WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
MAP - Mining Architectures for Product Line Evaluations
Product lines evolve out of existing products. In order to evaluate the potential of creating a product line from existing products it is necessary to `mine' their architectu...
Christoph Stoermer, Liam O'Brien
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
A Compositional Approach for Constructing Connectors
Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...
Bridget Spitznagel, David Garlan
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Interface-Centric Architecture Descriptions
This paper presents an approach to defining component-based software architectures in which interfaces rather than components play the key role. Architectural descriptions are bui...
Hans Jonkers
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Annotating Reusable Software Architectures with Specialization Patterns
An application framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. It is shown how the specialization interface ("hot spots...
Markku Hakala, Juha Hautamäki, Kai Koskimies,...
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
On the Notion of Variability in Software Product Lines
In this paper, we discuss the notion of variability. We have experienced that this concept has so far been underdefined. Although, we have observed that variability techniques bec...
Jilles van Gurp, Jan Bosch, Mikael Svahnberg
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Statechart Simulator for Modeling Architectural Dynamics
Software development is a constant endeavor to optimize qualities like performance and robustness while ensuring functional correctness. Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) ...
Alexander Egyed, David S. Wile
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Focus: A Light-Weight, Incremental Approach to Software Architecture Recovery and Evolution
During the past decade, object-orientation (OO) has become the dominant software development methodology, accompanied by a number of modeling notations, programming languages, and...
Lei Ding, Nenad Medvidovic
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
A Highly-Extensible, XML-Based Architecture Description Language
Software architecture research focuses on models of software architectures as specified in architecture description languages (ADLs). As research progresses in specific areas of s...
Eric M. Dashofy, André van der Hoek, Richar...
WICSA
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Why We Need A Different View of Software Architecture
The definition and understanding of software architectures and architecture views still shows considerable disagreement in the software engineering community. This paper argues th...
Jason Baragry, Karl Reed