Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures
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AlbakiReads Editorial A research-based guide to architectural adaptability and quality trade-offs
A research-based guide to architectural adaptability and quality trade-offs
Edited by Ivan Mistrik, this technical volume examines how large software systems can be designed and adjusted as requirements change over time. Its central concern is the architectural balancing of functional needs with quality attributes, connecting adaptability to broader system considerations. The contributed chapters assemble methods, tools, patterns, guidelines, and comparative approaches for adaptive and self-adaptive architectures across business contexts. Practical grounding comes through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or comparisons with approaches already in use, making the collection a structured look at both research questions and applied architectural decision-making.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Software architects working with evolving, large-scale systems
- Software engineering researchers studying adaptive and self-adaptive architectures
- Practitioners interested in quality attributes and architectural trade-offs
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Book Overview Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requir...
Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system.
This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices, and guidelines for developing adaptive systems, and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice.
Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, how to architect a system for adaptability, software architecture for self-adaptive systems, understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved, architectural patterns for self-adaptive systems, how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system, how to connect the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and more.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 430 | Language: English | Publisher: MORGAN KAUFMANN PUBL INC | ISBN: 0128028556
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