Quality goals have to be under a special consideration during software architectural design.
Evolvability constitutes a quality goal with a special relevance for business critical systems …

Feature modeling is widely used for software product line analysis to capture commonality
and variability of a product line. As product line variations are mainly captured in a feature …

Change propagation has been investigated in many case studies; anyway, the effect of
architectural choices like the degree of modularity or the presence of bus elements is still …

1.1 Objectives This document contains a literature overview for the DARWIN research
project. It is a living document and is regularly reviewed and extended. The ABB project …

Today, when a company designs, develops and manufactures goods or services, it must not
only target a high level of quality for the products to satisfy customers, but also comply with …

Today software systems have to face frequent requests for change during their whole
lifetime. It is very important that they can adapt to the frequently changing needs and are …

A successful design optimization crucially depends on the underlying representation, which
has to adapt to a variety of demands and changing boundary conditions. Complex system …

The architect of a large, evolving system may wish to revise its decomposition from time to
time; for instance, because the structure has deteriorated over time, certain components …

To enable software professionals to design and evolve long-living Service-Based Systems
(SBSs) in sustainable fashion, we are developing a continuous assurance method to identify …

Actualmente el mantenimiento de software es la etapa más costosa del ciclo de vida de
dicho producto. Identificar los atributos que influyen sobre la mantenibilidad de software es …