In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall av...
Scenarios are a popular means for capturing behavioural requirements of software systems early in the lifecycle. Scenarios show how components interact to provide system level func...
Model-driven engineering (MDE) techniques are increasingly being used to address many of the development and operational lifecycle concerns of large-scale component-based systems....
Understanding complex component-based systems often requires getting insight in how certain system properties, such as performance, trust, reliability, or structural attributes, c...
Large and complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architecture. In this context Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) can be used...