Architecture-Driven Development of embedded systems involves finding the right trade-off
between multiple non-functional properties at the model level. In this paper we define ACOL …

Research on Software Architectures has been active since the early nineties, leading to a
number of different architecture description languages (ADL). Given their importance in …

In this paper, we present the ABCTool, a visual tool for modeling software architecture in the
whole lifecycle of the target system so that the development, deployment, online …

The developers of a system are accepted as one of the most important stakeholders of an
architecture description. The development viewpoint is suggested to satisfy the needs of the …

Software architecture (SA) provides a formal basis to describe and analyze a software
system as a collection of components and their interactions (connectors). However, the …

Many software projects suffer from problems related to non-existent, incomplete, inaccurate,
or invalid architecture descriptions. The hypothesis underlying our approach is that …

Current component interfaces, such as those defined by CORBA, are devoid of additional
constraints that make helps in the task of composing software, therefore the dependent …

Software architecture evolution has become an integral part of the software lifecycle. Thus,
the maintenance of a software system involves among others the maintenance of the …

Component-based development focuses on component reuse and composition: abstract
components (as wished) must be searched for and matched to existing component (as …

Software architectures shift developers' focus from lines-of-code to coarser-grained
architectural elements and their interconnection structure. However, the benefits of …