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Attribute-driven software architecture design aims to provide decision support by taking into account the quality attributes of softwares. A central question in this process is: What architecture design best fulfills the desirable software…
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Since the early days of the Web, web application developers have aspired to develop much of their applications declaratively. However, one aspect of the application, namely its business-logic is constantly left imperative. In this work we…
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In this paper we present the modeling support infrastructure for domain-specific application definition. This consists of a set of meta-models and the associated generators to allow the definition of reusable and domain-specific behavior…
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