The recognition of the need for high-quality software architecture is evident from the
increasing trend in investigating architectural smells. Detection of architectural smells is …

Context: The performance assessment of complex software systems is not a trivial task since
it depends on the design, code, and execution environment. All these factors may affect the …

Context: Software architecture refactoring can be induced by multiple reasons, such as
satisfying new functional requirements or improving non-functional properties. Multi …

Multi-objective optimization has demonstrated, in the last few years, to be an effective
paradigm to tackle different architectural problems, such as service selection, composition …

In order to ease the early verification of uniprocessor real-time systems, the tool Cheddar
provides a service that guarantees the applicability of a schedulability analysis method for a …

Abstract Architecture-based software performance optimisation can help to find potential
performance problems and mitigate their negative effects at an early stage. To automate this …

Refactoring is often needed to ensure that software systems meet their performance
requirements in deployments with different operational profiles, or when these operational …

By increasing the importance of the performance in industrial and business software
systems, efficient approaches to model-based performance engineering are becoming an …

Refactoring has become a valuable activity during the software development lifecycle,
because it can be induced by different causes, like new requirements or quality …

Performance engineering of software architecture can be defined as the process of
analyzing the performance of a software architecture and then reacting to problems …