@inproceedings {Simula.simula.442,
	title = {Value-Based Design Decision Rationale Documentation: Principles and Empirical Feasibility Study},
	journal = {Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture},
	year = {2008},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	type = {Conference},
	abstract = {The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged, but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Methods proposed in the past for Design Decisions Rationale Documentation (DDRD) aimed to maximize benefits for the DDRD consumer by imposing on the producer of DDRD the burden to document all the potentially useful information. We propose here a compromise which consists in tailoring DDRD, based on its intended use or purpose. In our view, the adoption of a tailored DDRD, consisting only of the required set of information, would mitigate the effects of DDRD inhibitors. The aim of this paper is twofold: i) to discuss the application of Value-Based Software Engineering principles to DDRD, ii) to describe a controlled experiment to empirically analyze the feasibility of the proposed method. Results show that the level of utility related to the same category of DDRD information significantly changes depending on its purpose; such result is novel and it demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed valuebased DDRD.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-3092-5},
	author = {Falessi, Davide and Cantone, Giovanni and Kruchten, Philippe},
	editor = {Kruchten, Philippe and Garlan, David and Woods, E{\'o}in}
}
@inproceedings {Alia.2006.2,
	title = {MADAM: Towards a Flexible Planning-Based Middleware (extended Abstract)},
	journal = {ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), May 21-22, 2006, Shanghai, China},
	year = {2006},
	month = {May},
	pages = {96-96},
	publisher = {ACM Press},
	type = {Conference},
	abstract = {By exploiting software components, component frameworks and architectural reflection, the European IST project MADAM aims to overcome the complexity of developing mobile context-aware adaptive systems. The MADAM middleware defines a domain and platform-independent flexible reference architecture that supports dynamic reconfiguration of both applications and the middleware itself. Furthermore it implements flexible context monitoring, adaptation planning and dynamic reconfiguration frameworks that embodies much of the complex logic of dynamic adaptation.},
	isbn = {1-59593-403-0},
	author = {Alia, Mourad and Eliassen, Frank and Svein O. {Hallsteinsen} and Stav, Erlend},
	editor = {Betty H. C. {Chang} and de Lemos, Rogerio and Garlan, David}
}
