Economics-driven Software Architecture presents a guide for engineers and architects who need to understand the economic impact of architecture design decisions: the long term and strategic viability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of applications and systems. Economics-driven software development can increase quality, productivity, and profitability, but comprehensive knowledge is needed to understand the architectural challenges involved in dealing with the development of large, architecturally challenging systems in an economic way.
This book covers how to apply economic considerations during the software architecting activities of a project. Architecture-centric approaches to development and systematic evolution, where managing complexity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, evolvability, strategic planning and long-term value creation are among the major drivers for adopting such approaches. It assists the objective assessment of the lifetime costs and benefits of evolving systems, and the identification of legacy situations, where architecture or a component is indispensable but can no longer be evolved to meet changing needs at economic cost. Such consideration will form the scientific foundation for reasoning about the economics of nonfunctional requirements in the context of architectures and architecting.
Economics-driven Software Architecture presents a guide for engineers and architects who need to understand the economic impact of architecture design decisions: the long term and strategic viability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of applications and systems. Economics-driven software development can increase quality, productivity, and profitability, but comprehensive knowledge is needed to understand the architectural challenges involved in dealing with the development of large, architecturally challenging systems in an economic way.
This book covers how to apply economic considerations during the software architecting activities of a project. Architecture-centric approaches to development and systematic evolution, where managing complexity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, evolvability, strategic planning and long-term value creation are among the major drivers for adopting such approaches. It assists the objective assessment of the lifetime costs and benefits of evolving systems, and the identification of legacy situations, where architecture or a component is indispensable but can no longer be evolved to meet changing needs at economic cost. Such consideration will form the scientific foundation for reasoning about the economics of nonfunctional requirements in the context of architectures and architecting.
The first integrated body of knowledge on economics-driven and value-based models and metrics for software architecture.
1: Introduction to EDSA
Part I: Fundamentals of EDSA
2: A survey of economic models for product line architectures
3: Aspects of software valuation
4: An architecture framework for self-aware adaptive systems
Part II: Economics-driven Architecting: design mechanisms and
evaluation
5: Economics-driven software architecting for cloud
6: Economics-driven modularity evaluation
Part III: Managing architectural economics
7: Software engineering leveraging the crowd
8: Architectural debt management in value-oriented architecting
9: The value matrix: Value to quality and architecture
Part IV: Linking architecture inception and evolution to
economics:
experiences and approaches
10: Software evolution in the presence of externalities: A
game-theoretic approach
11: Successful cyberInfrastructures for E-health
Ivan Mistrik is a computer scientist who is interested in system
and software engineering (SE/SWE) and in system and software
architecture (SA/SWA), in particular: life cycle system/software
engineering, requirements engineering, relating software
requirements and architectures, knowledge management in software
development, rationale-based software development, aligning
enterprise/system/software architectures, and collaborative
system/software engineering. He has more than forty years’
experience in the field of computer systems engineering as an
information systems developer, R&D leader, SE/SA research
analyst, educator in computer sciences, and ICT management
consultant.
In the past 40 years, he has been primarily working at various
R&D institutions and has done consulting on a variety of large
international projects sponsored by ESA, EU, NASA, NATO, and UN. He
has also taught university-level computer sciences courses in
software engineering, software architecture, distributed
information systems, and human-computer interaction. He is the
author or co-author of more than 80 articles and papers in
international journals, conferences, books and workshops, most
recently a chapter Capture of Software Requirements and Rationale
through Collaborative Software Development, a paper Knowledge
Management in the Global Software Engineering Environment, and a
paper Architectural Knowledge Management in Global Software
Development.
He has written a number of editorials and prefaces, most recently
for the book on Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software
Architecture and the book on Agile Software Architecture. He has
also written over 120 technical reports and presented over 70
scientific/technical talks. He has served in many program
committees and panels of reputable international conferences and
organized a number of scientific workshops, most recently two
workshops on Knowledge Engineering in Global Software and
Development at International Conference on Global Software
Engineering 2009 and 2010 and IEEE International Workshop on the
Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud (FoSEC) held in
conjunction with IEEE Cloud 2011.He has been the guest-editor of
IEE Proceedings Software: A special Issue on Relating Software
Requirements and Architectures published by IEE in 2005 and the
lead-editor of the book Rationale Management in Software
Engineering published by Springer in 2006. He has been the
co-author of the book Rationale-Based Software Engineering
published by Springer in May 2008. He has been the lead-editor of
the book Collaborative Software Engineering published by Springer
in 2010, the book on Relating Software Requirements and
Architectures published by Springer in 2011 and the lead-editor of
the book on Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures
published by IGI Global in 2012. He was the lead-editor of the
Expert Systems Special Issue on Knowledge Engineering in Global
Software Development and the co-editor of the JSS Special Issue on
the Future of Software Engineering for/in the Cloud, both published
in 2013. He was the co-editor for the book on Agile Software
Architecture published in 2013. Currently, he is the lead-editor
for the book on Economics-driven Software Architecture to be
published in 2014.
Rami Bahsoon is a Senior lecturer in Software Engineering and
founder of the Software Engineering for/in the Cloud interest
groups at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham,
UK. His group currently comprises nine PhD students working in
areas related to cloud software engineering and architectures. The
group’s research aims at developing architecture and frameworks to
support and reason about the development and evolution of
dependable ultra-large complex and data-intensive software systems,
where the investigations span cloud computing architectures and
their economics. Bahsoon had founded and co-organized the
International Software Engineering Workshop series on Software
Architectures and Mobility held in conjunction with ICSE and the
IEEE International Software Engineering IN/FOR the Cloud workshop
in conjunction with IEEE Services. He was the lead editor of two
journal special issues with the Journal of Systems and Software
Elsevier– one on the Future of Software Engineering for/In the
Cloud and another on Architecture and Mobility. Bahsoon has
co-edited a book on Economics-driven Software Architecture, to be
published by Elsevier in 2014 and co-edited another book on
Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures, published
by IGI Global in 2012. He is currently acting as the workshop chair
for IEEE Services 2014, the Doctoral Symposium chair of IEEE/ACM
Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC 2014) and the track
chair for Utility Computing of HPCC 2014. He holds a PhD in
Software Engineering from University College London (UCL) for his
research on evaluating software architecture stability using real
options. He has also read for MBA-level certificates with London
Business School. Rick Kazman is a Professor at the University of
Hawaii and a Principal Researcher at the Software Engineering
Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His primary research
interests are software architecture, design and analysis tools,
software visualization, and software engineering economics. He also
has interests in human-computer interaction and information
retrieval. Kazman has created several highly influential methods
and tools for architecture analysis, including the SAAM (Software
Architecture Analysis Method), the ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff
Analysis Method), the CBAM (Cost-Benefit Analysis Method) and the
Dali architecture reverse engineering tool. Currently a
post-doctoral researcher in the CREST centre, SSE group, UCL. She
received her PhD in Software Engineering from Kings College London
in 2010. She has been working on multi-objective requirements
selection and optimization for release planning problem.
"This multi-faceted body of knowledge will be able to guide any
practicing software architect or software engineer in making
explicit economic and strategic considerations of architectural
choices." --Computing Reviews
"The main goal of this book is to outline some of the current
thinking on the processes and practices for economics- and
value-oriented software architecting." --HPCMagazine.com, August
2014
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