Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Software Architectural Process (SAP) is a core and excessively knowledge intensive phase of software development life cycle, as it consumes and produces knowledge artifacts, simultaneously. SAP is about making design decisions, and the changes in these verdicts may pose adverse effects on software projects. The performance and properties of software components are fundamentally influenced by the design decisions. The implementation of immature and abrupt design decisions seriously threatens the development process of SAP. Moreover, software architectural knowledge management (AKM) approaches offer systematic ways to support SAP through versatile architectural solutions and design decisions. However, the…