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This summary reports the workshops accepted in the 1st International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2017), held by Chalmers University at Gothenburg (Sweden). We gather the description of current and new research trends in different software architecture topics to provide a wide view to researchers and practitioners about the current status and trends in the field. ICSA is a premier software...
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 researchers make implicit assumption that decision making by software architects can be a rational and prescribed process. Such an assumption is disputed in other fields such as economics and decision research. This paper studies...
Software architecture is no more a mere system specification as resulting from the design phase, but it includes the process by which its specification was carried out. In this respect, design decisions in component-based software engineering play an important role: they are used to enhance the quality of the system, keep the current market level, keep partnership relationships, reduce costs, and...
Software architecture decision-making is critical to the success of a software system as software architecture sets the structure of the system, determines its qualities, and has far-reaching consequences throughout the system life cycle. The complex nature of the software development context and the importance of the problem has led the research community to develop several techniques, tools, and...
Software development methodology is a proposition that is used to structure, plan, and control the process of developing a system. However, traditional methods, such as waterfall-like model, component-based programming, software architecture method and agile method, have encountered more fundamental difficulties in processing complex system development. To address this challenge, we have witnessed...
Requirement change management is an important activity in software development. When we change our requirements it affects the other requirements of the system as well as the architecture of the system. It needs a proper approach which improves the requirement change management and its impact on architecture in a better way. In this paper a framework has been introduced which integrates the impact...
The documentation of architecture and design decisions lies at the backbone of building a comprehensive architectural knowledge basis within a company. As a consequence, a plethora of supporting frameworks has been lately proposed by the research community. The existing frameworks focus on capturing the rationale that lies behind a certain decision, but less on sustaining the collaborative process...
Software architecture is a key factor to scale up Agile Software Development (ASD) in large software-intensive systems. Currently, software architectures are more often approached through mechanisms that enable to incrementally design and evolve software architectures (aka. agile architecting). Agile architecting should be a light-weight decision-making process, which could be achieved by providing...
Architecture design of a software product line includes a lot of decision of how the variability component will be implemented. The decision corresponds to the requirements of the architecture specifications. Furthermore, most of the decision may have dependency between components. However, only some research devoted to address the quality attributes. In this paper, we propose a new approach that...
Nowadays the software architecture of a system is often seen as a set of design decisions providing the rationale for the system design. When designing a software architecture multiple levels of design decisions need to be considered. For example, the service-based integration of heterogeneous platforms and the development of applications on top of those integration services requires high-level as...
One of the approaches for documenting software architecture is to treat it as a set of architectural design decisions. Such decisions are always made in the context of requirements that must be fulfilled and in the context of decisions that were made before. Currently, models for representing architectural decisions are mainly concentrated on showing the decision making process of the initial architectural...
We propose to view architecting as a risk- and cost management discipline. This point of view helps architects identify the key concerns to address in their decision making, by providing a simple, relatively objective way to assess architectural significance. It also helps business stakeholders to align the architect's activities and results with their own goals. We examine the consequences of this...
Architecting is to a large extent a decision-making process. While many approaches and tools exist to support architects during the various activities of architecting, little guidance exists to support the reasoning part of decision-making. This is partly due to our limited understanding of how professional architects make decisions. We report on findings of a survey that we have conducted with 53...
The competitive environment and changing business processes propose new requirements to ERP system's flexibility and its evaluation becomes the first and critical step to solve these problems. This paper begins with the analysis of flexibility's definition.Basing on the core idea of three-tier software architecture, the author refines the index system from the aspects of presentation flexibility,...
Software architecture is critical to the success of large software systems. It has long been recognized that architectural design has profound impact on the achievement of system requirements. Two typical methods have been proposed to help users to make architectural decisions based on requirements. One method uses risk-based reasoning to help choosing good architectural design that can meet both...
ICT services management and outsourcing is a topic that has been recently discussed by a number of researchers and practitioners. Still, there does not exist any universal approach to these activities. Enterprises use a variety of methodologies, frameworks, and guidelines based on various principles. These approaches ascribe different functions to the ICT services, but none of them uses any concept...
Design decisions are often tacit knowledge of an architecture and consequently they are easily lost during software evolution, a phenomenon known as knowledge vaporization. As a countermeasure design decisions can be documented explicitly. However, documenting design decision is expensive because they need to be captured in addition to the changes in the architecture. We propose an executable representation...
Over the past decades, the design and development of mission based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) continues to challenge researchers. Although AUV technology has matured and commercial systems have appeared in the market, a generic yet robust AUV command and control (C2) system still remains a key research area. This paper presents a command and control system architecture for modular AUVs. We...
This paper elaborates on the Cybercars-2 Wireless Communication Framework for driverless city vehicles, which is used for Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication. The developed framework improves the safety and efficiency of driverless city vehicles. Furthermore, this paper also elaborates on the vehicle control software architecture. On-road tests of both the communication...
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