Software Architecture: System Design, Development and Maintenance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Dynamic Software Architectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Adaptive Object-Model Architectural Style

      • Joseph W. Yoder, Ralph Johnson

      Pages 3-27

   3. Aura: An Architectural Framework for User Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

      • João Pedro Sousa, David Garlan

      Pages 29-43

   4. Using Architectural Style as a Basis for System Self-repair

      • Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl, João Pedro Sousa, Bridget Spitznagel, Peter Steenkiste

      Pages 45-59

3. Architecture Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Modeling and Analyzing the Software Architecture of a Communication Protocol Using SAM

      • Tianjun Shi, Xudong He

      Pages 63-77

   3. Dynamic Reconfigurable Software Architecture

      • Amar Ramdane-Cherif, Nicole Levy, Francisca Losavio

      Pages 79-93

   4. Understanding and Propagating Architectural Changes

      • Christopher Van der Westhuizen, André van der Hoek

      Pages 95-109

4. Architecture Description

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Practical Rationale for Describing Software Architecture

      • Kari Smolander, Tero Päivärinta

      Pages 113-125

   3. Documenting and Analyzing a Context-Sensitive Design Space

      • Hans de Bruin, Hans van Vliet, Ziv Baida

      Pages 127-141

   4. Introducing Reflection in Architecture Description Languages

      • Carlos E. Cuesta, Pablo de la Fuente, Manuel Barrio-Solórzano, M. Encarnación Beato

      Pages 143-156

5. Architecture Reconstruction and Evolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Architecture Reconstruction in Practice

      • Claudio Riva

      Pages 159-173

   3. Introducing the Software Architectonic Viewpoint

      • Alessandro Maccari, Galal H. Galal

      Pages 175-189

6. Component-Based Architectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. A Component-Based Software Architecture for Industrial Control

      • Frank Lüders, Ivica Crnkovic, Andreas Sjögren

      Pages 193-204

   3. Analyzing Commercial Component Models

      • Wayne DePrince Jr., Christine Hofmeister

      Pages 205-219

   4. A Family of Software Architecture Implementation Frameworks

      • Nenad Medvidovic, Nikunj Mehta, Marija Mikic-Rakic

      Pages 221-235

For more and more systems, software has moved from a peripheral to a central role, replacing mechanical parts and hardware and giving the product a competitive edge. Consequences of this trend are an increase in: the size of software systems, the variability in software artifacts, and the importance of software in achieving the system-level properties. Software architecture provides the necessary abstractions for managing the resulting complexity. We here introduce the Third Working IEEFlIFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA3. That it is already the third such conference is in itself a clear indication that software architecture continues to be an important topic in industrial software development and in software engineering research. However, becoming an established field does not mean that software architecture provides less opportunity for innovation and new directions. On the contrary, one can identify a number of interesting trends within software architecture research. The first trend is that the role of the software architecture in all phases of software development is more explicitly recognized. Whereas initially software architecture was primarily associated with the architecture design phase, we now see that the software architecture is treated explicitly during development, product derivation in software product lines, at run-time, and during system evolution. Software architecture as an artifact has been decoupled from a particular lifecycle phase.

• Processing
• communication
• design
• evaluation
• modeling
• software architecture
• structured analysis
• system

• University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  Jan Bosch

• Dalhousie University, Canada

  Morven Gentleman

• Lehigh University, USA

  Christine Hofmeister

• Leegur Oy, Finland

  Juha Kuusela

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