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Much effort has been put in defining methods, techniques, and tools for software architecture reconstruction (SAR) Software Architecture Transformation (SAT), and Software Architecture-based Development, but much less attention has been paid to what lies at the heart of architecture-based development, software architectural styles. We argue that architecture-based software development could be much more productive if centered around the concept of software architecture styles, hence the need for style recovery in the process of software architecture reconstruction. The reason behind this is generally. Furthermore, with the coherence architectural styles can bring to the process of automated... 

In software systems development lifecycle making use of software architecture, especially by taking advantage of architecture styles and patterns, is an essential part which increases product's quality. Nowadays, in order to cover complexity of systems, combination of different architecture styles should be used; therefore ambiguous behaviors might occur. Hence, due to the critical need for toolsets capable of selecting suitable styles and patterns, an environment is proposed in this paper which can perfectly cover different aspects of the implementation of decision support system (DSS). The designed environment obviates data implementation concepts and security considerations. Moreover, it... 

Evaluating architectures and choosing the correct one is a critical issue in software engineering domain, in accordance with extremely extension of architecturedriven designs. In the first years of defining architecture styles, some special quality attributes were introduced as their basic attributes. After a moment, by utilizing them in practice, some results were obtained confirming some of attributes; some others meanwhile were not witnessed. As software architecture construction process is dependent on and addressed by both usage conditions and quality attributes, in this paper a framework has been proposed to provide an environment and a platform that can cover evaluation of... 

Due to the extreme use of method engineering and increasing attention to construct methods customized for a specific project, domain, organization or a generic method compatible with the team characteristics and needs, existence of suitable and formalized frameworks and guidelines is one of the challenges method engineers are encountered. In this area, considering method construction as the goal of method engineering brings to the mind the software development process in which the product is a method adapting the method users' needs. This paper, with a new approach of applying software architecture in method engineering and making use of architecture styles, tries to take advantage of... 

Due to the enlargement and complexity of software systems and the need for maintenance and update, success of systems depends strongly on their architecture. Software architecture has been a key element in software development process in two past decades. Therefore, choosing the correct architecture is a critical issue in software engineering domain, with respect to the extremely extension of architecturedriven designs. Moreover, software architecture selection is a multi-criteria decision-making problem in which different goals and objectives should be considered. In this paper, a Decision Support System (DSS) has been designed which provides software architects with more precise and... 

The continuing process of software systems enlargement in size and complexity becomes system design extremely important for software production. In this way, the role of software architecture is significantly important in software development. It serves as an evaluation and implementation plan for software development and software evaluation. Consequently, choosing the correct architecture is a critical issue in software engineering domain. Moreover, software architecture selection is a multicriteria decision-making problem in which different goals and objectives must be taken into consideration. In this paper, more precise and suitable decisions in selection of architecture styles have been...