Design and Applications of Software Architectures
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 5710
Special Issue Editors
Interests: software architecture; autonomic service-oriented computing and networking; adaptive systems; IoT
Interests: software reuse; software architecture; software reengineering; software component/service; software product Line; software evolution; source code analysis; search-based algorithms
Special Issue Information
The software architecture of a system represents its fundamental structures and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. It is a metaphor, analogous to the architecture of a building. This is an abstract view of a system in terms of architectural elements and concerns making fundamental structural choices, where architecture design decisions have the most significant influence on system qualities.
Having an architectural representation of a system improves the understanding of the system, and facilitates reuse, evolution, and maintenance.
Different topics have aroused the interest of different communities of researchers concerned with problems related to software architecture. This has spawned meaningful developments and progress related to this discipline. However, despite these considerable advances, many obstacles remain to be overcome to reach the expected objectives, especially for new software development domains such as DevOps and the cloud computing, Systems of Systems (SoS), and cyber-physical systems and IoT which pose new challenges and require adapted solutions.
This Special Issue invites submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience papers in the area of software architecture.
Dr. Khalil Drira
Dr. Seriai Abdelhak-Djamel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Software architecture
- Methods for software architecture
- Foundations for software architecture
- Techniques and tools for software architecture
- Empirical studies for software architecture
- Systematic literature reviews in the software architecture
- Mapping studies in the software architecture.
