Software architecture (panel): the next step for object technology

Currently there is no consensus on what exactly software architecture is or where the boundary between software architecture design and application design lies. In this paper the concept of a software architecture is analyzed from a number of different ...

Software Architecture emerged in the 1990's as an important sub-field of software engineering. While good architectural design had long been recognized as critical to the success of any complex software system, before then the practice of architecting ...

This paper provides an introduction to the field of software engineering requires facility in architectural software design. The goal is to demonstrate the current state of the discipline and examine the ways in which architectural design can impact ...