The state of the art and future perspectives in systems of systems software architectures
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems
Towards a process to design product line architectures based on reference architectures
Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference
Perspectives and challenges of reference architectures in multi software product line
Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference co-located workshops
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Reference architectures have emerged as a special type of software architecture that achieves well-recognized understanding of specific domains, promoting reuse of design expertise and facilitating the development, standardization, and evolution of software systems. Designed for various domains and purpose, they have increasingly impacted important aspects of system development, such as productivity and quality of such systems. However, reference architectures have been sometimes established without an adequate concern about which elements they should encompass. Besides that, there is a lack of work that investigate the essence of reference architectures, their dimensions and elements that they should contain. In this perspective, the main contribution of this paper is to present a reference model for reference architectures, named RAModel (Reference Architecture Model), that intends to improve the understanding about what reference architectures are, as well as their components and relationships, supporting the establishment, use, and evolution of such architectures.