Connected devices and systems have become an integral part of our everyday life and we take this for granted. Finding the fastest way to our destination with a smartphone, reading the news on a tablet ...

According to IEEE 1471, “A software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationship to each other and the environment, and the principles ...

Recently, design patterns were introduced to document good OO designs. 1-5 In general, a pattern describes a problem that frequently occurs in software applications, then describes its solution in ...

Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

Structured software is based on a plan that considers the specific requirements of a system and translates them into loosely coupled components. In collaborative software development, development ...

IT'S CERTAINLY TRUE that building distributed systems is a difficult business. This is due to the inherent and accidental complexity of both the design and implementation of networked software ...

Since we began working on the first book in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series in the mid-nineties, the discussion about what software architecture specifically entails has repeatedly ...