Software Architectures, Components, and Applications : Third International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2007, Medford, MA, USA, July 11-23, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA, in July 2007, in conjunction with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007, and the ROSATEA 2007 event, investigating the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis, forming the federated events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture, CompArch 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on architectural design and architectural decisions, tracing architectural decisions, architecture evaluation, architecture evolution, architecting process and architectural knowledge. Front Matter....Pages - Resource Architecture and Continuous Performance Engineering....Pages 1-14 Reusable Architectural Decision Models for Enterprise Application Development....Pages 15-32 Using Planning Techniques to Assist Quality-Driven Architectural Design Exploration....Pages 33-52 Customizing Traceability Links for the Unified Process....Pages 53-71 Architecture Recovery and Evaluation Aiming at Program Understanding and Reuse....Pages 72-89 Factors Influencing Industrial Practices of Software Architecture Evaluation: An Empirical Investigation....Pages 90-107 A Bayesian Model for Predicting Reliability of Software Systems at the Architectural Level....Pages 108-126 Performance Prediction of Web Service Workflows....Pages 127-144 Predicting the Performance of Component-Based Software Architectures with Different Usage Profiles....Pages 145-163 Pre-emptive Adaptation Through Classical Control Theory....Pages 164-181 Extending the Capabilities of Component Models for Embedded Systems....Pages 182-196 Architectural Knowledge: Getting to the Core....Pages 197-214 The Influence of CMMI on Establishing an Architecting Process....Pages 215-230 The Architect’s Mindset....Pages 231-249 Back Matter....Pages - Researchers and professionals will find in this text the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2007, held in Medford, MA, USA, in 2007. It was mounted in conjunction with the 10th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2007. The 13 revised full papers presented together with one keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.