The importance of architectural knowledge (AK) management for software development has
been highlighted over the past ten years, where a significant amount of research has been …

Recent research suggests that architectural knowledge, such as design decisions, is
important and should be recorded alongside the architecture description. Different …

A software architecture manifests the major early design decisions. These early decisions
determine the system's development, deployment and evolution. Thus, making better …

The effective documentation of Architectural Knowledge (AK) is one of the key factors in
leveraging the paradigm shift toward sharing and reusing AK. However, current …

Architectural design is expected to provide virtuous outcomes of quality software products by
satisfying customer requirements. A foremost apprehension of the customer is to have a …

Software architects create and consume many interrelated artifacts during the architecting
process. These artifacts may represent functional and nonfunctional requirements …

As management of architectural knowledge becomes vital for improving an organization's
architectural capabilities, support for (semi-) automating this management is required. There …

Concentrating on components and connectors in traditional approaches to document
software architecture causes the problems, such as high costs for architecture change and …

In the field of software architecture, there has been a paradigm shift from describing the
outcome of the architecting process to documenting architectural knowledge, such as design …

Management of software architecture knowledge (AK) is vital for improving an organization's
architectural capabilities. To support the architecting process within our industrial partner …