Dealing with crosscutting requirements in software development usually makes the process
more complex. Modeling and analyzing of these requirements in the software architecture …

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

Component-based development is a proven approach to manage the complexity of software
and its need for customization. At an architectural level, one describes the principal system …

Abstract Architecture Description Language (ADL) is one of the keys to software architecture
research, but most attention was paid to the description of software structure and high-level …

Research and experimentation in software architectures over the past decade have yielded
a plethora of software architecture description languages (ADLs). Continuing innovation …

While architecture description languages (ADLs) have gained wide acceptance in the
research community as a means of describing system designs, the uptake in industry has …

Many architecture description languages (ADLs) have been proposed to model, analyze,
configure, and deploy complex software systems. To face this diversity, extensible ADLs (or …

Abstract Architecture-centric, component-based development intensively reuses
components from repositories. Such development processes produce architecture …

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 …