Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

There are many challenges which face designers of complex system architectures,
particularly safety–critical or real-time systems. The introduction of Architecture Description …

Today, software systems are more and more executed in dynamic, virtualized environments.
These environments host diverse applications of different parties, sharing the underlying …

Quality attributes, such as performance or reliability, are crucial for the success of a software
system and largely influenced by the software architecture. Their quantitative prediction …

This technical report introduces the Descartes Modeling Language (DML), a new
architecture-level modeling language for modeling Quality-of-Service (QoS) and resource …

Abstract Design decisions for complex, component-based systems impact multiple quality of
service (QoS) properties. Often, means to improve one quality property deteriorate another …

Context: Application of component based software engineering methods to heterogeneous
computing (HC) enables different software configurations to realize the same function with …

A key challenge of software architecture design is how to satisfy quality-attribute
requirements, which often conflict with each other. This is usually a complex task, because …

Determining the trade-off between performance and costs of a distributed software system is
important as it enables fulfilling performance requirements in a cost-efficient way. The large …

Automotive systems provide sophisticated functionality and are controlled by networked
electronic control units (ECUs). Nowadays, software engineers use component-based …