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 …

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Although several defi nitions of “software architecture” have been presented, none of them to
date enable a reviewer confronted with a complex of diagrams and symbols to determine …

Much has been written recently about software architecture, how to represent it, and where
design fits in the software development process. In this article I will focus on the people who …

This position paper makes the following claims that, in our opinion, are worthwhile to discuss
at the workshop. 1) The first phase of software architecture research, where the key concepts …

Over the past decade software architecture has received increasing attention as an
important subfield of software engineering. During that time there has been considerable …

For large, complex software systems, the design of the overall system structure (the software
architecture) is an essential challenge. The architecture of a software system defines that …

Software architecture is commonly considered to be the structure of a large piece of software-
-commonly presented as a nested set of box and arrow diagrams. This paper takes a …

We compare five industrial software architecture design methods and we extract from their
commonalities a general software architecture design approach. Using this general …

Despite considerable attention paid on software architecture, the organizational aspects of
architecture design remain largely unexplored. This study analyses the stakeholders …