Towards reference architectures as an enabler for software ecosystems
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Towards reference architectures as an enabler for software ecosystems. / Knodel, Jens; Manikas, Konstantinos.
Proccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. 26.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Towards reference architectures as an enabler for software ecosystems
AU - Knodel, Jens
AU - Manikas, Konstantinos
N1 - Conference code: 4
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Software ecosystems - a topic with increasingly growing interest in academia and industry in the past decade - arguably revolutionized many aspects of industrial software engineering (business models, architectures, platforms, project executions, collaboration models, distribution of assets, to name a few). Software ecosystems enable the contribution of external actors with distinct center a common technology and the potential distribution of the actor contributions to an existing user set. Reference architectures have been proven successful and beneficial for software product lines and traditional software development within distinct domains. They arguably come with a set of benefits that severely counterweights the additional effort of design and implementation. But what is the role of reference architectures in an ecosystem setting? In this position paper, we argue for the use of reference architecture as a means of facilitating the operation of software ecosystems, supporting not only the technical aspects but also business and organizational. Thus, we propose that reference architectures can be used as a tool to facilitate software ecosystem orchestration and promote the ecosystem health. In this work, we identify a set of challenges and propose a research agenda for the further development of the field towards efficiently improving the existing means of ecosystem orchestration.
AB - Software ecosystems - a topic with increasingly growing interest in academia and industry in the past decade - arguably revolutionized many aspects of industrial software engineering (business models, architectures, platforms, project executions, collaboration models, distribution of assets, to name a few). Software ecosystems enable the contribution of external actors with distinct center a common technology and the potential distribution of the actor contributions to an existing user set. Reference architectures have been proven successful and beneficial for software product lines and traditional software development within distinct domains. They arguably come with a set of benefits that severely counterweights the additional effort of design and implementation. But what is the role of reference architectures in an ecosystem setting? In this position paper, we argue for the use of reference architecture as a means of facilitating the operation of software ecosystems, supporting not only the technical aspects but also business and organizational. Thus, we propose that reference architectures can be used as a tool to facilitate software ecosystem orchestration and promote the ecosystem health. In this work, we identify a set of challenges and propose a research agenda for the further development of the field towards efficiently improving the existing means of ecosystem orchestration.
U2 - 10.1145/2993412.3003387
DO - 10.1145/2993412.3003387
M3 - Article in proceedings
BT - Proccedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th International Workshop on Software Ecosystem Architectures
Y2 - 29 November 2016 through 29 November 2016
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