Software Architecture

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes

   1. Issues in Architecture Evolution: Using Design Intent in Maintenance and Controlling Dynamic Evolution

      • Dewayne E. Perry

      Pages 1-1

   2. Component-Oriented Verification of Software Architectures through Built-in Tests

      • Colin Atkinson

      Pages 2-2

3. Full Research Papers

   1. Non-synchronous Communications in Process Algebraic Architectural Description Languages

      • Marco Bernardo, Edoardo Bontà

      Pages 3-18

   2. Stakeholder Perception of Enterprise Architecture

      • Bas van der Raadt, Sander Schouten, Hans van Vliet

      Pages 19-34

   3. Web Services Orchestrations Evolution: A Merge Process for Behavioral Evolution

      • Sébastien Mosser, Mireille Blay-Fornarino, Michel Riveill

      Pages 35-49

   4. Evaluating Domain Design Approaches Using Systematic Review

      • Ednaldo Dilorenzo de Souza Filho, Ricardo de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Danuza F. S. Neiva, Thiago H. B. Oliveira, Liana Barachisio Lisboa, Eduardo Santana de Almeida et al.

      Pages 50-65

   5. Characterizing Relations between Architectural Views

      • Nelis Boucké, Danny Weyns, Rich Hilliard, Tom Holvoet, Alexander Helleboogh

      Pages 66-81

   6. How Do Agents Affect Modifiability? A Comparison between Two Architectures for Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training

      • Gonzalo Méndez, Angélica de Antonio

      Pages 82-97

   7. An Architecture-Centric Development Environment for Black-Box Component-Based Systems

      • Gerald Kotonya

      Pages 98-113

   8. Automating the Trace of Architectural Design Decisions and Rationales Using a MDD Approach

      • Elena Navarro, Carlos E. Cuesta

      Pages 114-130

   9. Development of Fault-Tolerant Software Systems Based on Architectural Abstractions

      • Patrick H. S. Brito, Rogério de Lemos, Cecília M. F. Rubira

      Pages 131-147

   10. Towards Interoperability in Component Based Development with a Family of DSLs

       • Ileana Ober, Ali Abou Dib, Louis Féraud, Christian Percebois

       Pages 148-163

   11. Modeling Architectural Patterns’ Behavior Using Architectural Primitives

       • Ahmad Waqas Kamal, Paris Avgeriou

       Pages 164-179

   12. Approach for Dynamically Composing Decentralised Service Architectures with Cross-Cutting Constraints

       • Varvana Myllärniemi, Christian Prehofer, Mikko Raatikainen, Jilles van Gurp, Tomi Männistö

       Pages 180-195

4. Experience Papers

   1. Architectural Prototyping in Industrial Practice

      • Henrik Bærbak Christensen, Klaus Marius Hansen

      Pages 196-209

   2. An Iterative Framework for Software Architecture Recovery: An Experience Report

      • Banani Roy, T. C. Nicholas Graham

      Pages 210-224

   3. Towards a Method for the Evaluation of Reference Architectures: Experiences from a Case

      • Samuil Angelov, Jos J. M. Trienekens, Paul Grefen

      Pages 225-240

   4. On the Role of Architectural Design Decisions in Software Product Line Engineering

      • Rafael Capilla, Muhammad Ali Babar

      Pages 241-255

5. Emerging Research Papers

   1. Towards a Dependency Constraint Language to Manage Software Architectures

      • Ricardo Terra, Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente

      Pages 256-263

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European conference dedicated to the field of software architecture, covering all architectural features of software engineering. It is the follow-up of a successful series of European workshops on software architecture held in the UK in 2004 (Springer LNCS 3047), Italy in 2005 (Springer LNCS 3527), and France in 2006 (Springer LNCS 4344). It evolved into a series of European conferences whose first edition was ECSA 2007, held in Madrid, Spain during September 24–26, 2007 (Springer LNCS 4758). This year’s conference was held at the beautiful Coral Beach Hotel and Resort near Paphos in Cyprus. As with the previous versions of the conference, ECSA 2008 (Springer LNCS 5292) provided an international forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present innovative research and to discuss a wide range of topics in the area of software architecture. It focused on formalisms, technologies, and processes for describing, verifying, validating, transforming, building, and evolving software systems. Covered topics included architecture modelling, architecture description languages, architectural aspects, architecture analysis, transformation and synthesis, architecture evolution, quality attributes, model-driven engineering, built-in testing and architecture-based support for component-based and service-oriented systems. The conference attracted paper submissions from 29 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, - land, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK, USA, and Venezuela).

• architecture-based code generation
• aspect-oriented software development
• autonomic systems
• component-based software
• description languages
• dynamic evolution
• efficiency
• enterprise architecture
• evaluation
• formal semantics
• heterogeneous components
• modeling
• software architecture
• structured analysis
• testing

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