"This book covers all you need to know to model and design software applications from use cases to software architectures in UML and shows how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and addresses software quality attributes including maintainability, modifiability, testability, traceability, scalability, reusability, performance, availability, and security. Complete case studies illustrate design issues for different software architectures: a banking system for client/server architecture, an online shopping system for service-oriented architecture, an emergency monitoring system for component-based software architecture, and an automated guided vehicle for real-time software architecture. Organized as an introduction followed by several short, self-contained chapters, the book is perfect for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in software engineering and design, and for experienced software engineers wanting a quick reference at each stage of the analysis, design, and development of large-scale software systems"-- "This book provides you with all you need to know for modeling and design of software applications, from use cases to software architectures in UML. It shows you how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and layered patterns for software product line architectures, and addresses software quality attributes, including maintainability, modifiability, testability, traceability, scalability, reusability, performance, availability, and security. Complete case studies illustrate design issues for different software architectures: a Banking System for client/server architectures, an Online Shopping System for service-oriented architectures, an Emergency Monitoring System for component-based software architectures, and an Automated Guided Vehicle System for real-time software architectures. Organized as an introduction followed by several self-contained chapters the book is perfect for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in software engineering and for experienced software engineers who want a quick reference at each stage of the analysis, design, and development of large-scale software systems"--