Introduction. Architectural styles. Case studies. Shared information systems. Architectural design guidance. Formal models and specifications. Linguistics issues. Tools for architectural design. Education of software architects.

New and improved in this second edition: Coverage of architectural styles such as service-oriented architectures, multi-tier architectures, and data models Guidance for documentation in an Agile development environment Deeper treatment of ...

"This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn't have thought it possible to improve on the original.

"This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn't have thought it possible to improve on the original.

Abstract: "This proceedings contains the papers of the participants of the First International Workshop on Architectures for Software Systems held on April 24-25, 1995 in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Software ...

Abstract: "The software architecture of most systems is usually described informally and diagrammatically by means of boxes and lines.

Abstract: "An important issue for software system development is the documentation of architecture designs.