Over the past two decades, several languages have been proposed to describe software
architectures to promote the development of architecturefocused applications. In general …

Software of today is becoming larger and more complex. More powerful ways of structuring
complexity are consequently required, whether it is about development methodologies …

{Whatever the long-term impact of software architecture may turn out to be, an appropriate
starting point is a concrete appraisal of the current state of the practice in the use of software …

This dissertation is devoted to the topic of architecture modelling for software systems. The
architecture describes the structural composition of a system from components and …

The main goal of this book is to cover a wide spectrum of software architecture modeling
techniques using viewpoints to describe the structure, the behavior, and the execution of a …

Modern software systems are becoming more and more complex. The importance of
distributed systems and networking increases. To guarantee the ability of understanding and …

This paper provides an overview of the major issues and trends in architecture-based
software engineering. While all software systems can be described in terms of components …

Software architecture has become a primary field of software engineering research in the
recent twenty years. The wave of research on software architecture, which has intensified …

Software architecture has emerged as an important subdiscipline of software engineering
encompassing a broad set of languages, styles, models, tools, and processes. The role of …

Although several defi nitions of “software architecture” have been presented, none of them to
date enable a reviewer confronted with a complex of diagrams and symbols to determine …