These risks can be mitigated by initially developing the model for a range of purposes, with a clear description of assumptions made, by using version management with a description of changes between versions and by adopting a software architecture that supports replacement and extension of components without affecting the other components.
This research aims at developing collaborative planning and scheduling in complex and dynamic supply chains by providing a software architecture and a methodology to define cooperation in a distributed environment.
This is followed by the presentation of a software architecture and its implementation in Section 6. Section 7 describes an implemented prototype demonstrator for a financial application.
Doors (TM) is a software architecture developed by Ubique that unifies Internet's resources --- people and information in a simple framework suitable for live human interaction and collaboration.
Generally speaking, the design of a software architecture is guided by the questions: "how well does the chosen solutions support the satisfaction of each requirement?" and "which design alternatives were considered?" In a standard design activity, such questions are answered by a design-time decision-making process that compares different problems and solution alternatives.
As software companies are becoming increasingly globalised, a number of issues arise with respect to the social and environmental aspects of conducting the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a software architecture evaluation method developed by the Software Engineering Institute.
The main contribution of this article is the proposal of a formal approach to the composition of a software architecture, which is driven by the specification of goals determined at runtime.
On the modeling side, we provide a set of guidelines inspired by the software architecture field, which should enforce a clear component-oriented approach to the process algebraic design of system families.
This is achieved by a highly configurable software architecture that allows for different compression pipelines.
The effort, and therefore cost, that is required for these modifications is largely determined by a system's software architecture.
