Quantitative prediction of quality attributes for component-based software architectures

Abstract

The history of this thesis began more than ten years ago when Yuri Karpov, professor from the Technical University of Saint-Petersburg, and Dieter Hammer, professor from the Technical University of Eindhoven, met each other, and discussed the idea of exchanging students for research projects.We are sincerely grateful to prof.Yuri Karpov, who was one of our favorite tutors for three years at TU\SPb, for introducing us to prof.D.K. Hammer and for recommending us as suitable candidates for the research project at TU\e.We also want to thank Kirill Bolshakov, our group mate and friend from the TU\SPb, as he, working in the group of prof.Karpov, pinpointed us as the best candidates.Our greatest thanks are expressed to prof.D.K. Hammer who was the key