Architecting software-intensive systems can be a complex process. It deals with the daunting
tasks of unifying stakeholders' perspectives, designers' intellect, tool-based automation …

Many times we are faced with the proliferation of definitions, concepts, languages, and tools
in certain (research) topics. But often there is a gap between what is provided by existing …

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 …

Dealing with non-functional requirements (NFRs) has posed a challenge onto software
engineers for many years. Over the years, many methods and techniques have been …

Despite the abundance of research on methodologies for the documentation of design
decisions and the evidence linking documentation to the improvement in the systems …

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 …

Architectural technical debt is the additional project cost connected to technical issues
nested in software architectures. Similarly, many practitioners have already experienced that …

Software architects are key assets for successful development projects. However, not much
research has investigated the challenges they face in large-scale distributed projects. So …

The paper focuses on the challenge of generating theoretical support for software
development, especially when human software developers are involved in the software …

Software architecture can be seen as a set of architectural design decisions. These
decisions, especially their rationale, play an important role in understanding software …