Ebook: Software Architecture: System Design, Development and Maintenance

For more and more systems, software has moved from a peripheral to a central role, replacing mechanical parts and hardware and giving the product a competitive edge. Consequences of this trend are an increase in: the size of software systems, the variability in software artifacts, and the importance of software in achieving the system-level properties. Software architecture provides the necessary abstractions for managing the resulting complexity. We here introduce the Third Working IEEFlIFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA3. That it is already the third such conference is in itself a clear indication that software architecture continues to be an important topic in industrial software development and in software engineering research. However, becoming an established field does not mean that software architecture provides less opportunity for innovation and new directions. On the contrary, one can identify a number of interesting trends within software architecture research. The first trend is that the role of the software architecture in all phases of software development is more explicitly recognized. Whereas initially software architecture was primarily associated with the architecture design phase, we now see that the software architecture is treated explicitly during development, product derivation in software product lines, at run-time, and during system evolution. Software architecture as an artifact has been decoupled from a particular lifecycle phase.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Adaptive Object-Model Architectural Style....Pages 3-27
Aura: An Architectural Framework for User Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 29-43
Using Architectural Style as a Basis for System Self-repair....Pages 45-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Modeling and Analyzing the Software Architecture of a Communication Protocol Using SAM....Pages 63-77
Dynamic Reconfigurable Software Architecture....Pages 79-93
Understanding and Propagating Architectural Changes....Pages 95-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Practical Rationale for Describing Software Architecture....Pages 113-125
Documenting and Analyzing a Context-Sensitive Design Space....Pages 127-141
Introducing Reflection in Architecture Description Languages....Pages 143-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Architecture Reconstruction in Practice....Pages 159-173
Introducing the Software Architectonic Viewpoint....Pages 175-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A Component-Based Software Architecture for Industrial Control....Pages 193-204
Analyzing Commercial Component Models....Pages 205-219
A Family of Software Architecture Implementation Frameworks....Pages 221-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-237

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Adaptive Object-Model Architectural Style....Pages 3-27
Aura: An Architectural Framework for User Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments....Pages 29-43
Using Architectural Style as a Basis for System Self-repair....Pages 45-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Modeling and Analyzing the Software Architecture of a Communication Protocol Using SAM....Pages 63-77
Dynamic Reconfigurable Software Architecture....Pages 79-93
Understanding and Propagating Architectural Changes....Pages 95-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Practical Rationale for Describing Software Architecture....Pages 113-125
Documenting and Analyzing a Context-Sensitive Design Space....Pages 127-141
Introducing Reflection in Architecture Description Languages....Pages 143-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Architecture Reconstruction in Practice....Pages 159-173
Introducing the Software Architectonic Viewpoint....Pages 175-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
A Component-Based Software Architecture for Industrial Control....Pages 193-204
Analyzing Commercial Component Models....Pages 205-219
A Family of Software Architecture Implementation Frameworks....Pages 221-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-237
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