A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of
file-based documents. This approach offers a single-dimensional perspective on the …

The knowledge society requires life-long learning and flexible learning environment that
enables fast, just-in-time and relevant learning, aiding the development of communities of …

Abstract The usefulness of Software Architecture (SA) documentation depends on how well
its Architectural Knowledge (AK) can be retrieved by the stakeholders in a software project …

In large-scale collaborative software projects, thousands of requirements with complex
interdependencies and different granularity spreading in different levels are elicited …

Making distributed teams more efficient is one main goal of Collaborative Software
Development (CSD) research. To this end, ontologies, which are models that capture a …

The increasing number of distributed software projects together with the success of agile
development methodologies raise new challenges for collaboration and knowledge sharing …

The way in which architectural decisions are made changes when more agile development
methods are used. This chapter focuses on architectural decisions and how they are made …

In recent years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been widely adopted for enterprise
application integration. A SOA not only promotes interoperable, loosely coupled enterprise …

Organizations developing software for critical sectors like aerospace, automotive, and
medical systems need to apply process requirements coming from different sources …

The paper describes an ontology of enterprise software components (ESCO). Its purpose is
to reduce the conceptual gap between component specifications and their corresponding …