On the evolution of software architectures

Vescoukis, VC

dc.contributor.author	Vescoukis, VC	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T11:45:42Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T11:45:42Z
dc.date.issued	1999	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/37573
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dc.subject	Distributed systems	en
dc.subject	Software engineering	en
dc.subject	Web-based software applications	en
dc.subject.other	Computer aided software engineering	en
dc.subject.other	Computer architecture	en
dc.subject.other	Data reduction	en
dc.subject.other	Distributed computer systems	en
dc.subject.other	Personal computers	en
dc.subject.other	World Wide Web	en
dc.subject.other	Business logic layers	en
dc.subject.other	Monolithic structuring	en
dc.subject.other	Software architecture	en
dc.subject.other	Web-based software applications	en
dc.subject.other	Computer software	en
dc.title	On the evolution of software architectures	en
heal.type	other	en
heal.publicationDate	1999	en
heal.abstract	Software is a complex technical construction that has been developed and used for the past few decades. The evolution of software applications has followed that of computer hardware and today, some sort of software application exists in most artificial systems. In their early days, software applications were usually quite simple, compared to today's giant and complex applications, and the difficulties in their construction focused on very fundamental issues. After the 80's and even more during the 90's, software applications have become very complex. Their development is supported by sophisticated tools and their runtime environments are much more advanced than in the early days. There are more than one choice on how to structure a software application and questions that a few years ago had only one answer, today have fairly more. The issue of software architecture has risen and several architectures have been proposed in order to develop better and more effective software. This paper is a review of the most important of the software architectures from the monolithic to the fully distributed one, focusing on the evolution, the advantages and the shortcomings of each one of them.	en
heal.publisher	World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society	en
heal.journalName	Computers and Computational Engineering in Control	en
dc.identifier.spage	303	en
dc.identifier.epage	308	en