Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

The choice of which software component to use influences the success of a software system.
Only a few empirical studies investigate how the choice of components is conducted in …

Selecting sourcing options for software assets and components is an important process that
helps companies to gain and keep their competitive advantage. The sourcing options …

Companies developing software are constantly striving to gain or keep their competitive
advantage on the market. To do so, they should balance what to develop themselves and …

When designing a software system, architects make a series of design decisions that directly
impact the system's quality. The number of available design alternatives grows rapidly with …

The open-source compiler GCC offers numerous options to improve execution time. Two
categories of approaches, machine learning-based and design space exploration, have …

Rapid increases in systems complexity have raised the need to exploit the" design & reuse"
principle to its full potential. The proposed research is targeted towards component reuse …

Design decisions software architects make directly impact system quality. Real-world
systems involve a large number of such decisions, and each decision is typically influenced …

Software plays a vital role in most of the embedded systems including safety and mission-
critical systems in avionics, automotive, nuclear and medical applications. Along with the …

System complexity, driven by both increasing transistor count and customer need for more
and more savvy applications, has increased so dramatically that system design and …