This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...
Problem determination in today's computing environments consumes between 30 and 70% of an organization’s IT resources and represents from one third to one half of their tot...
In a mature fortune 500 manufacturing company, such as 3M Company, many processes and procedures for developing products have been put in place over the years. Many of these tools...
Richard Moore, Kelly Reff, James Graham, Brian Hac...
Software miniaturization is a form of software refactoring focused on reducing an application to the bare bone. Porting an application on a hand-held device is very likely to requ...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Markus Neteler, Giuliano An...
A reference software architecture for a domain defines the fundamental components of the domain and the relations between them. Research has shown the benefits of having a referen...