Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on
adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system
engineers must evaluate different quality attributes including trade-offs to balance
functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the
lifetime of the system. This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to
manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents
state-of-the-art techniques methodologies tools best practices and guidelines for
developing adaptive systems and offers guidance for future software engineering research and
practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through
case studies experiments empirical validation or systematic comparisons with other
approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include but are not limited to how to
architect a system for adaptability software architecture for self-adaptive systems
understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved architectural patterns for self-adaptive
systems how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system how to connect
the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations
and more.
