A classification of software reference architectures: Analyzing their success and effectiveness
@article{Angelov2009ACO,
title={A classification of software reference architectures: Analyzing their success and effectiveness},
author={Samuil Angelov and Paul Grefen and Danny Greefhorst},
journal={2009 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture \& European Conference on Software Architecture},
year={2009},
pages={141-150}
}A software reference architecture is a generic architecture for a class of information systems that is used as a foundation for the design of concrete architectures from this class. [] Key Method Using our framework on a set of reference architectures, and based on experiences with reference architectures, we define five main types of reference architectures that have congruent goals, context, and design.
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