Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Architectural mismatch or why it's hard to build systems out of existing parts
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software engineering
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
A formal basis for architectural connection
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Towards a taxonomy of architecture integration strategies
ISAW '98 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Software architecture
Architecture-based runtime software evolution
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Towards a taxonomy of software connectors
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
A notation for problematic architecture interactions
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
The impact of component architectures on interoperability
Journal of Systems and Software
A Field Guide to Boxology: Preliminary Classification of Architectural Styles for Software Systems
COMPSAC '97 Proceedings of the 21st International Computer Software and Applications Conference
An approach to software architecture analysis for evolution and reusability
CASCON '97 Proceedings of the 1997 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Composing heterogeneous software architectures
Composing heterogeneous software architectures
A method for compatible COTS component selection
ICCBSS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
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The seamless integration of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components offers many benefits associated with reuse. Even with successful composite applications, unexpected interoperability conflicts can arise when COTS products are upgraded, new components are needed, and the application requirements change. Recent approaches to integration follow pattern-based design principles to construct integration architecture for the composite application. This integration architecture provides a design perspective for addressing the problematic interactions among components within the application environment. However, little attention has been paid to the evolvability of these architectures and their embedded functionality. In this paper, we discuss the need for design traceability based on the history of interoperability conflicts and resolution decisions that comprise the integration architecture. Additionally, we advocate that certain functional aspects of a pattern can be pinpointed to resolve a conflict. Combining these two aspects of integration architecture design, we illustrate that often evolution is possible with minimal changes to the integration solution.