Literature review studies are essential and form the foundation for any type of research.
They serve as the point of departure for those seeking to understand a research topic, as …

Software architects must sustain design decisions to endure throughout software evolution.
Several criteria can help them assess decisions' sustainability. In addition, industry and …

In recent years, the software architecture community has proposed to use architectural
design decisions (ADDs) for capturing the design rationale and the architectural knowledge …

Designing a software architecture is a highly complex task and associated with a high
degree of uncertainty. There are a variety of reusable and established solutions, but they …

The software architecture community has proposed to document the design rationale of
software architectures by means of architectural design decisions (ADDs). The constant …

Managing models in a consistent manner is an important task in the field of Model-Driven
Engineering (MDE). Although restoring and maintaining consistency is desired in general …

Architectural design decisions (ADDs) have been used in recent years for capturing design
rationale and documenting architectural knowledge (AK). However, various architectural …

Abstract Models play an important role in nowadays' software engineering processes,
providing stakeholders with a suitable level of abstraction for specifying software systems …

The process of engineering and provisioning service-based systems (SBS) follows a
complex and dynamic lifecycle with different phases and levels of abstraction. We tackle the …

Continuous Software Engineering (CSE) is a software life cycle model open to frequent
changes in requirements or technology. During CSE, software developers continuously …