There is large uncertainty with the software cost in the early stages of software development due to requirement volatility, incomplete understanding of product domain, reuse oppor...
Da Yang, Barry W. Boehm, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, Mings...
Abstract. The conceptual modelling of software architectures is of central importance for the quality of a software system. A rich modelling language is required to integrate the d...
Developing and consistently evolving quality software designs requires both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The former can be communicated in a classroom; the latter h...
As distributed technologies become more widely used, the need for assessing the quality of distributed applications correspondingly increases. Despite the rich body of research an...
A typical software architecture design process requires the architects to make various trade-off architecture decisions. The architects need to consider different possibilities and...