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WICSA
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Assessing the Architectonics of Large, Software-Intensive Systems Using a Knowledge-Based Approach
This paper presents an assessment case study on the evolutionary capability of a large software system using a knowledge-based approach. The knowledge-based assessment is based on...
Christian Del Rosso, Alessandro Maccari
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Mining Patterns to Support Software Architecture Evaluation
In this paper, we present an approach to improve the software architecture evaluation process by systematically extracting and appropriately documenting architecturally significan...
Liming Zhu, Muhammad Ali Babar, D. Ross Jeffery
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
An Externalized Infrastructure for Self-Healing Systems
Software architecture descriptions can play a wide variety of roles in the software lifecycle, from requirements specification, to logical design, to implementation architectures....
David S. Wile, Alexander Egyed
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
PACE: An Architectural Style for Trust Management in Decentralized Applications
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Understanding Tradeoffs among Different Architectural Modeling Approaches
Over the past decade a number of architecture description languages (ADLs) have been proposed to facilitate modeling and analysis of software architecture. While each claims to ha...
Roshanak Roshandel, Bradley R. Schmerl, Nenad Medv...
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Software Architecture for Mobile Distributed Computing
Today's wireless networks and devices support the dynamic composition of mobile distributed systems, according to device connectivity. This has in particular led to the
Valérie Issarny, Ferda Tartanoglu, Jinshan ...
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Establishing a Software Architecting Environment
We present the work of establishing an integrated environment that facilitates architecture design, reconstruction, and maintenance in the entire life cycle of a software product ...
Claudio Riva, Petri Selonen, Tarja Systä, Ant...
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Software Reconfiguration Patterns for Dynamic Evolution of Software Architectures
A software reconfiguration pattern is a solution to a problem in component-based software systems where the configuration needs to be updated while the system is operational. It d...
Hassan Gomaa, Mohamed Hussein
WICSA
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Symphony: View-Driven Software Architecture Reconstruction
Authentic descriptions of a software architecture are required as a reliable foundation for any but trivial changes to a system. Far too often, architecture descriptions of existi...
Arie van Deursen, Christine Hofmeister, Rainer Kos...