Software Architecture: 12th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2018, Madrid, Spain, September 24–28, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 11048)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2018. The 17 full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Self-Adaptive Architectures, IoT Architectures, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, Microservices Architectures, Service-Oriented Architectures, Architectural Design Decisions, Software Architecture in Practice. Front Matter ....Pages I-XXI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A DSL for MAPE Patterns Representation in Self-adapting Systems (Paolo Arcaini, Raffaela Mirandola, Elvinia Riccobene, Patrizia Scandurra)....Pages 3-19 Formally Describing Self-organizing Architectures for Systems-of-Systems on the Internet-of-Things (Flavio Oquendo)....Pages 20-36 Guidance of Architectural Changes in Technical Systems with Varying Operational Modes (Lukas Märtin, Nils-André Forjahn, Anne Koziolek, Ralf Reussner)....Pages 37-45 Front Matter ....Pages 47-47 Applying Architecture-Based Adaptation to Automate the Management of Internet-of-Things (Danny Weyns, M. Usman Iftikhar, Danny Hughes, Nelson Matthys)....Pages 49-67 IoT Architectural Styles (Henry Muccini, Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam)....Pages 68-85 ECo-IoT: An Architectural Approach for Realizing Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things (Fahed Alkhabbas, Romina Spalazzese, Paul Davidsson)....Pages 86-102 A Catalogue of Architectural Decisions for Designing IIoT Systems (Somayeh Malakuti, Thomas Goldschmidt, Heiko Koziolek)....Pages 103-111 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Enabling Continuous Software Engineering for Embedded Systems Architectures with Virtual Prototypes (Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Matthias Jung, Andreas Morgenstern, Florian Faßnacht, Thomas Bauer, Adam Bachorek et al.)....Pages 115-130 Abstraction Layered Architecture: Writing Maintainable Embedded Code (John Spray, Roopak Sinha)....Pages 131-146 Towards Preserving Information Flow Security on Architectural Composition of Cyber-Physical Systems (Christopher Gerking, David Schubert)....Pages 147-155 Front Matter ....Pages 157-157 A Quantitative Approach for the Assessment of Microservice Architecture Deployment Alternatives by Automated Performance Testing (Alberto Avritzer, Vincenzo Ferme, Andrea Janes, Barbara Russo, Henning Schulz, André van Hoorn)....Pages 159-174 Crunch: Automated Assessment of Microservice Architecture Assignments with Formative Feedback (Henrik Bærbak Christensen)....Pages 175-190 Beethoven: An Event-Driven Lightweight Platform for Microservice Orchestration (Davi Monteiro, Rômulo Gadelha, Paulo Henrique M. Maia, Lincoln S. Rocha, Nabor C. Mendonça)....Pages 191-199 Front Matter ....Pages 201-201 A Platform for the Automated Provisioning of Architecture Information for Large-Scale Service-Oriented Software Systems (Georg Buchgeher, Rainer Weinreich, Heinz Huber)....Pages 203-218 Providing Context as a Service Using Service-Oriented Mobile Indie Fog and Opportunistic Computing (Chii Chang, Satish Narayana Srirama)....Pages 219-235 Spotlighting Use Case Specific Architectures (Mohamed Lamine Kerdoudi, Chouki Tibermacine, Salah Sadou)....Pages 236-244 Front Matter ....Pages 245-245 Empirical Insights into the Evolving Role of Architects in Decision-Making in an Agile Context (Femke Heijenk, Martin van den Berg, Henrik Leopold, Hans van Vliet, Raymond Slot)....Pages 247-264 Using Informal Knowledge for Improving Software Quality Trade-Off Decisions (Yves Schneider, Axel Busch, Anne Koziolek)....Pages 265-283 Understanding Architecture Decisions in Context (Ken Power, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock)....Pages 284-299 Front Matter ....Pages 301-301 Software Architecture Measurement—Experiences from a Multinational Company (Wensheng Wu, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman, Ran Mo, Zhipeng Liu, Rongbiao Chen et al.)....Pages 303-319 Identifying and Prioritizing Architectural Debt Through Architectural Smells: A Case Study in a Large Software Company (Antonio Martini, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Andrea Biaggi, Riccardo Roveda)....Pages 320-335 Software Migration and Architecture Evolution with Industrial Platforms: A Multi-case Study (Konstantinos Plakidas, Daniel Schall, Uwe Zdun)....Pages 336-343 Front Matter ....Pages 345-345 Two Architectural Threat Analysis Techniques Compared (Katja Tuma, Riccardo Scandariato)....Pages 347-363 Executing Architectural Models for Big Data Analytics (Camilo Castellanos, Dario Correal, Juliana-Davila Rodriguez)....Pages 364-371 Back Matter ....Pages 373-374