Component-based development is an architecture-centric process that relies on the
integration of pre-fabricated software components. These are often blackbox components …

Component-based software development (CBD) is an architecture-centric process that relies
on the integration of pre-fabricated software components to construct systems. Architecture …

Component-based system development (CBD) relies on the integration of existing software
components to compose systems. These are often black-box components whose …

We began by considering the broad vision for analysis and evaluation of architectures: to
provide an engineering discipline that allows architects to make principled architectural …

During architectural analysis and synthesis, architectural metrics are established tacitly or
explicitly. In architectural evaluation, these metrics then can be consulted to assess whether …

The software architecture is one of the most crucial artifacts within the lifecycle of a software
system. Decisions made at the architectural level directly enable, facilitate, hamper, or …

The software architecture is one of the most crucial artifacts within the lifecycle of a software
system. Decisions made at the architectural level directly enable, facilitate, hamper, or …

In contrast to software architecture models, architectural decisions are often not explicitly
documented, and therefore eventually lost. This contributes to major problems such as high …

Software architectural evaluation, while still in its infancy as a discipline, promises large
dividends. It is important to be able to determine the quality characteristics of a system …

Concentrating on components and connectors in traditional approaches to document
software architecture causes the problems, such as high costs for architecture change and …