{"title":"\"The 3+1 Views of Architecture (in 3D)\": An Amplification of the 4+1 Viewpoint Framework","authors":"Mark Kennaley","doi":"10.1109/WICSA.2008.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2008.27","url":null,"abstract":"Processes and techniques for the development of enterprise software are best served when infused with practical experience. Pragmatic reflection on what works and what doesn 't is critical to enable successful adoption of any process. One aspect of developing software intensive systems is that of architecture description. A very popular approach to software architecture description is the 4+1 Views of Architecture in Kruchten, P. (1995). From practical experience applying this framework, this paper discuses an amplification of the 4+1 Views approach - the \"3+1 Views of Architecture - in 3D \". It is also compliant with the best practices described within the international standard IEEE 1471 - Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software Intensive Systems in.","PeriodicalId":352075,"journal":{"name":"Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117200282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architectural Effects on Requirements Decisions: An Exploratory Study","authors":"James A. Miller, R. Ferrari, N. Madhavji","doi":"10.1109/WICSA.2008.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2008.31","url":null,"abstract":"The question of the \"manner in which an existing software architecture affects requirements decisionmaking\" is recognised as important in the research community; however, to our knowledge, this issue has not been scientifically explored. This paper describes an exploratory study on this question. Specific types of architectural effects on requirements decisions are identified, as are different aspects of the architecture together with the extent of their effects. This paper gives quantitative measures and qualitative interpretation of the findings. The understanding gained from this study has several implications in the areas of: project planning and risk management, requirements engineering and software architecture technology, architecture evolution, tighter integration of Requirements Engineering and Software Architecting processes, and middleware in architectures. The study involved six requirements engineering teams (of university students), whose task was to elicit new requirements for upgrading a preexisting banking software infrastructure. The data collected was based on a new meta-model for requirements decisions, which is a bi-product of this study.","PeriodicalId":352075,"journal":{"name":"Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131263283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Modifiable Agent-Based Software Architecture for Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training","authors":"Gonzalo Méndez, Angélica de Antonio Jiménez","doi":"10.1109/WICSA.2008.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2008.35","url":null,"abstract":"During the last years, intelligent virtual environments for training have become a quite popular application of computer science to education. However, little attention is being paid to software engineering issues, and most systems are developed in an ad-hoc way that does not allow the reuse of their components or an easy modification of the application, even though some authors claim that the use of agents makes systems be more modifiable. We describe an agent-based software architecture that is intended to be easily extended and modified. This architecture is a redesign of a previous one using more formal principles and methods of software architecture design.","PeriodicalId":352075,"journal":{"name":"Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123962260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sylvain Chardigny, A. Seriai, M. Oussalah, D. Tamzalit
{"title":"Extraction of Component-Based Architecture from Object-Oriented Systems","authors":"Sylvain Chardigny, A. Seriai, M. Oussalah, D. Tamzalit","doi":"10.1109/WICSA.2008.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2008.44","url":null,"abstract":"Software architecture modeling and representation became a main phase of the development process of complex systems. In fact, software architecture representation provides many advantages during all phases of software life cycle. Nevertheless, for many systems, like legacy or eroded ones, there is no available representation of their architectures. In order to benefit from this representation, we propose, in this paper, an approach called ROMANTIC which focuses on extracting a component-based architecture of an existing object-oriented system. The main idea of this approach is to propose a quasi-automatic process of architecture recovery based on semantic and structural characteristics of software architecture concepts.","PeriodicalId":352075,"journal":{"name":"Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121808828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}