8. QoSA 2012: Bertinoro, Italy
Vincenzo Grassi, Raffaela Mirandola, Barbora Buhnova, Antonio Vallecillo (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGSOFT conference on Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2012, part of Comparch '12 Federated Events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture, Bertinoro, Italy, June 25-28, 2012. ACM 2012 ISBN 978-1-4503-1346-9
Keynote address
Alberto Montresor: Designing extreme distributed systems: challenges and opportunities. 1-2
Evolution and flexibility
Jeffrey M. Barnes: NASA's advanced multimission operations system: a case study in software architecture evolution. 3-12
Matthias Naab, Johannes Stammel: Architectural flexibility in a software-system's life-cycle: systematic construction and exploitation of flexibility. 13-22
Nour Ali, Jacek Rosik, Jim Buckley: Characterizing real-time reflexion-based architecture recovery: an in-vivo multi-case study. 23-32
Architecture design and refactoring
Davide Arcelli, Vittorio Cortellessa, Catia Trubiani: Antipattern-based model refactoring for software performance improvement. 33-42
Azadeh Alebrahim, Maritta Heisel: Supporting quality-driven design decisions by modeling variability. 43-48
Zoya Durdik, Ralf Reussner: Position paper: approach for architectural design and modelling with documented design decisions (ADMD3). 49-54
Romina Eramo, Vittorio Cortellessa, Alfonso Pierantonio, Michele Tucci: Performance-driven architectural refactoring through bidirectional model transformations. 55-60
ADLs and DSLs
Thomas Haitzer, Uwe Zdun: DSL-based support for semi-automated architectural component model abstraction throughout the software lifecycle. 61-70
Yanja Dajsuren, Mark van den Brand, Alexander Serebrenik, Rudolf Huisman: Automotive ADLS: a study on enforcing consistency through multiple architectural levels. 71-80
Nikolaus Huber, Fabian Brosig, Samuel Kounev: Modeling dynamic virtualized resource landscapes. 81-90
Performance
Rouven Krebs, Christof Momm, Samuel Kounev: Metrics and techniques for quantifying performance isolation in cloud environments. 91-100
Jian Yu, Jun Han, Jean-Guy Schneider, Cameron M. Hine, Steven Versteeg: A virtual deployment testing environment for enterprise software systems. 101-110
Henning Groenda: Improving performance predictions by accounting for the accuracy of composed performance models. 111-116
Matthias Becker, Markus Luckey, Steffen Becker: Model-driven performance engineering of self-adaptive systems: a survey. 117-122
Applications
Moreno Marzolla: Optimizing the energy consumption of large-scale applications. 123-132
Marwan Abi-Antoun, Nariman Ammar, Zeyad Hailat: Extraction of ownership object graphs from object-oriented code: an experience report. 133-142
Ulrik Eklund, Jan Bosch: Using architecture for multiple levels of access to an ecosystem platform. 143-148
Paul Brebner: Experiences with early life-cycle performance modeling for architecture assessment. 149-154



