Reexamining the Role of Interactions in Software Architecture

Describing and understanding the interactions among computation units in a software system remains one of the most interesting challenges of software architecture. In the old days, computation units were statements, and interaction among them consisted of the control flow between them. Structured programming and modern languages have made this quite tractable for developers to describe and understand. But object-orientation, concurrency, and component-based systems have pushed us into a realm where interactions between computation units (components) are often quite complex and difficult to understand.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 18015, USA

   Christine Hofmeister

Editors and Affiliations

1. Chair for Software Design and Quality, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

   Ralf Reussner

2. Dept. of Applied Information Processing, University of Ulm, 89069, Ulm, Germany

   Johannes Mayer

3. Computer Science, Tufts University, 161 College Avenue, Medford, 02155, Boston, MA, USA

   Judith A. Stafford

4. Dept. of Software Engineering and Business Information Systems, Augsburg University, Universitätsstraße 16, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

   Sven Overhage

5. FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

   Steffen Becker

6. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 53202, Milwaukee, WI, USA

   Patrick J. Schroeder

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