5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, East Stroudsberg University, Vereinigte Staaten

<p>The goal of QoSA (Quality of Software Architectures) is to address aspects of software architecture focusing broadly on quality characteristics and how these relate to the design of software architectures&#046; Specific issues of interest are defining quality measures, evaluating and managing architecture quality, linking architecture to requirements and implementation, and preserving architecture quality throughout the lifetime of the system&#046;</p>This year, the main topic of QoSA is architectures for adaptive software systems&#046; Modern software systems must often reconfigure their structure and behavior to respond to continuous changes in requirements and in their execution environment&#046; In this setting, quality models are helpful at the architectural level to guide systematic model&#8211;driven software development strategies by evaluating the impact of alternative architectural choices and the implied trade&#8211;offs&#046; At run time, quality models can play an important role to enable calibration and validation of a system model in order to accurately reflect the properties of the executing system&#046; This leads to the idea that models should continue to exist at run time to drive the necessary dynamic changes that realize self&#8211;adaptation&#046; Technical reports both on scientific novel results and industrial case studies are welcome&#046;