This book presents the current state of practice and research in the area of software architecture. In addition to detailing critical problems and their possible solutions in the field, the book identifies the gaps between business needs and research results and attempts to provide a bridge between them. Its scope includes theory, processes, technology, and specific examples. It represents: a state-of-the-art snapshot of the best cutting-edge thinking in academia, government and industry concerning software architecture; a summary of current research, case studies and experience reports; and an identification of the problems and proposed solutions in the design, implementation and evolution of software architectures. £/LIST£ This book comprises the proceedings of the First Working Conference on Software Architecture held in February, 1999, in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and organized by the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The conference proceedings will be particularly relevant to researchers in the field of software architecture and engineering and to practicing software architects in industry and government.

Practitioners and researchers report their experience and discuss technical aspects. The 34 papers cover analysis and assessment, models and descriptions, patterns and styles, domain-specific architectures and product families, interoperability and integration, the evolution of software, and techniques and methods. The specific topics include a reconstruction method, modeling architectures and styles with graph grammars and constraint solving, a framework for describing architecture for reuse, medical product line architectures, architecture for software construction by unrelated developers, building systems from parts in the real world, architecture concerns in automating code generation, and designing to meet stakeholder requirements. No index is included.
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