Software Product Lines (SPL), Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Customer Off The Shelf (COTS) components provide a rich supporting base for creating software architectures. Further, they promise significant improvements in the quality of software configurations that can be composed from pre-built components. Software architectural styles provide a way for achieving a desired coher...

Software Product Lines (SPL), Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components provide a rich supporting base for creating software architectures. Further, they promise significant improvements in the quality of software configurations that can be composed from pre-built components. Software architectural styles provide a way for achieving a desired coh...

We argue that it is useful to study classes of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures, corresponding to architectural styles in addition to particular architectures. In this work we focus on a particular abstraction level where MAS architectural styles are characterized according to properties, such as, the type of control used (from fully centralized to fully distributed), and the type of coor...

a comparative study of the corresponding styles of western and iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. this paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in iran and that of the west. this is ...

with regard to the society’s need for complicated software and high level of expenses on its development, it is necessary to take all stakeholders’ requirements and the demands into consideration, before any investments and put on the design and utilization stages. software architecture is a technical description of a software system that indicates components and their relationships between the...

The codification of software architectural decisions made to address recurring software development challenges results in architectural styles. The primary benefit of architectural styles is that properties demonstrated at the level of a style are carried over into the software system architectures constructed using that style. However, in the absence of comprehensive techniques for checking co...

The term software architectural style has recently been introduced to refer to the conventions that are used to interpret a description of a software architecture. The representation and analysis of useful architectural styles is an important problem. This paper gives an overview of a methodology developed by the authors for describing the syntax and semantics of software architectural styles w...

For the past five years we have studied architectural styles for computation exchange, an architectural idiom in which decentralized systems and systems-of-systems (distributed systems under multiple, interacting spheres of authority) are constructed and maintained via the bilateral and dynamic exchange of code between peers. Here we focus on the methods for implementing architectural styles in...

Ahmed Abd-Allah, Barry Boehm ([email protected], [email protected]) USC Center for Software Engineering Computer Science Department University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 Abstract: A persistent problem in software engineering is how to put software systems together out of smaller subsystems: the problem of software composition. The emergence of software architectures ...

An important concern for the successful deployment of a dependable system is its quality of service (QoS), which is significantly influenced by its architectural style. We propose the comparative evaluation of architectural styles by simulation. Our approach integrates architectural styles and concrete architectures to enable early design-space exploration in order to predict the QoS of peer-to...