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Flexibility in Ecosystem Architectures

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Simone da Silva Amorim,

John D. McGregor,

Eduardo Santana de Almeida,

Christina von Flach G. ChavezAuthors Info & Claims

ECSAW '14: Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/2642803.2642817

Published: 25 August 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Quality attributes are important to creating, understanding, and evaluating software architectures. The architectural attributes and challenges for ecosystem architectures are different from one-off systems. The study of those aspects that influence quality attributes in this new environment can help to understand these architectures. In previous work, we hypothesized that the architecture for an ecosystem should be extensible, scalable, and flexible and reported initial investigations into extensibility and scalability. In this paper, we report on our investigation into flexibility. We analyze various features that impact how to design flexible architectures. We highlight that flexibility for ecosystems is not only a technical issue, but a business issue as well. We classified features that affect flexibility into business and technical dimensions. We adapted a software system metric for flexibility to measure the flexibility of an ecosystem's architecture.

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Flexibility in Ecosystem Architectures
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering

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Amorim SMcGregor Jde Almeida Evon Flach G. Chavez CNakagawa EOquendo FAvgeriou PSantos R(2017)Software ecosystems' architectural healthProceedings of the Joint 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems and 11th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems and Systems-of-Systems10.5555/3103196.3103211(66-69)Online publication date: 20-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3103196.3103211
de Gusmão ADe Souza CReis RLima ABahsoon RWeinreich R(2016)A study about architectural requirements in a transition from product to software platformProccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops10.1145/2993412.3003388(1-4)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2993412.3003388
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