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 …

Early validation of requirements aims to reduce the need for the high-cost validation testing
and corrective measures at late development stages. This work introduces a systematic …

Architectural languages (ALs) have attracted much attention as the modeling notations for
specifying and reasoning about important design decisions. In this study, 124 different …

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Model-driven engineering (MDE) is
the automatic production of software from simplified models of structure and functionality. It …

The development of architectural connectors as first-class software entities is a long-
standing software engineering promise that has not been fully realized thus far. This …

UML is considered as the top popular software modelling language among practitioners.
Expectedly, UML has been extended by many other languages, which tailor UML for …

To provide hierarchical description from different software architectural view points we need
more than one abstraction hierarchy and connection mechanisms to support the interactions …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) comprises smart systems that embrace computational and
physical elements. In these systems, physical and software components are often tightly …

Based on the need for defining configurable interaction options among components, the
XCOSEML language is extended with connector variability support. Extended metamodel …

The component's interaction points with the external world play a fundamental role in the
specification of an application's architecture. Current software architecture approaches …