Architectural considerations play a key role in the success of any software-based development project. Architecture evaluation is an early risk reduction method for identifying ri...
Abstract. A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's properties. These properties will depend on various system...
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Nenad...
Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
Quantitative prediction of quality properties (i.e. extrafunctional properties such as performance, reliability, and cost) of software architectures during design supports a syste...
Anne Martens, Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker, Ralf...
This paper describes a modeling and simulation framework called VisualSense for wireless sensor networks that builds on and leverages Ptolemy II. This framework supports actor-ori...
Philip Baldwin, Sanjeev Kohli, Edward A. Lee, Xiao...