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Reexamining the Role of Interactions in Software Architecture

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Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality (QoSA 2005, SOQUA 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 3712))

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Describing and understanding the interactions among computation units in a software system remains one of the most interesting challenges of software architecture. In the old days, computation units were statements, and interaction among them consisted of the control flow between them. Structured programming and modern languages have made this quite tractable for developers to describe and understand. But object-orientation, concurrency, and component-based systems have pushed us into a realm where interactions between computation units (components) are often quite complex and difficult to understand.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 18015, USA

    Christine Hofmeister

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  1. Chair for Software Design and Quality, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Ralf Reussner

  2. Dept. of Applied Information Processing, University of Ulm, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Johannes Mayer

  3. Computer Science, Tufts University, 161 College Avenue, Medford, 02155, Boston, MA, USA

    Judith A. Stafford

  4. Dept. of Software Engineering and Business Information Systems, Augsburg University, Universitätsstraße 16, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    Sven Overhage

  5. FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Steffen Becker

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 53202, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Patrick J. Schroeder

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Hofmeister, C. (2005). Reexamining the Role of Interactions in Software Architecture. In: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality. QoSA SOQUA 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558569_1

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