Software Architecture: First European Workshop, EWSA 2004, St Andrews, UK, May 21-22, 2004, Proceedings

The last decade has been one of great progress in the field of software architecture research and practice. Software architecture has emerged as an important subdis— pline of software engineering. A key aspect of the design of any software system is its architecture, i. e. the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its com— nents, their relationships to each other, and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution (as defined in the Recommended Practice f...