Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), a new concept that emerged about a year ago, integrating
the IT and the Telecom worlds will have a great impact on the openness of the Telecom …

Whenever developers choose among alternative technical approaches, they make a design
decision. Collectively, design decisions shape how software implements its requirements …

Architectural knowledge consists of architecture design as well as the design decisions,
assumptions, context, and other factors that together determine why a particular solution is …

Despite past efforts, we have little understanding and limited research efforts on how
architects make decisions in the real-world settings. It seems that software architecture …

Traditionally, software architecture is seen as the result of the software architecture design
process, the solution, usually represented by a set of components and connectors. Recently …

Context Despite past empirical research in software architecture decision making, we have
not yet systematically studied how to perform such empirical research. Software architecture …

Cobbler's children do not wear shoes. Software engineers build sophisticated software but
we often cannot find the needed information and knowledge for ourselves. Issues are the …

Enterprise Architecture (EA) modeling languages can express the business-to-IT-stack for
an organization, showing how changes in the IT landscape impact business aspects and …

Enterprises frequently engage in transformations. Typical examples of such enterprise
transformations include changes of the business model, mergers and acquisitions, large …

Architectural knowledge consists of architecture design as well as the design decisions,
assumptions, context, and other factors that together determine why a particular solution is …