This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014. They are organized in topical sections named: architecture decisions and knowledge; enterprise architecture, SOA and cloud computing; and architecture analysis and verification.

Architecture Decisions and Knowledge.- A Fresh Look at Codification Approaches for SAKM: A Systematic Literature Review.- Suitability of Software Architecture Decision Making Methods for Group Decisions.- Modeling the Interactions between Decisions within Software Architecture Knowledge.- Semi-automated Design Guidance Enhancer (SADGE): A Framework for Architectural Guidance Development.- Combining Architectural Design Decisions and Legacy System Evolution.- Architecture Patterns and Anti-Patterns.- Specification and Detection of SOA Antipatterns in Web Services.- Co-evolving Pattern Synthesis and Class Responsibility Assignment in Architectural Synthesis.- Ontology-Driven Pattern Selection and Matching in Software Design.- Reference Architectures and Metamodels.- Towards an Improved Stakeholder Management for Software Reference Architectures.- RA-Ubi: A Reference Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing.- Towards a Coordination-Centric Architecture Metamodel for Social Web Applications.- Architecture Description Languages.- Using Policies for Handling Complexity of Event-Driven Architectures.- Architecture-Based Code Generation: From π–ADL Architecture Descriptions to Implementations in the Go Language.- Generating EAST-ADL Event Chains from Scenario-Based Requirements Specifications.- Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Cloud Computing.- Architecture Strategies for Cyber-Foraging: Preliminary Results from a Systematic Literature Review.- Adapting Enterprise Architecture at a Software Development Company and the Resultant Benefits.- Service Development and Architecture Management for an Enterprise SOA.- Multi-tenant Architecture Comparison.- Integrating Service Matchers into a Service Market Architecture.- Towards a Process to Design Architectures of Service-Oriented Robotic Systems.- Scalable Architectures for Platform-as-a-Service Clouds: Performance and Cost Analysis.- Components and Connectors.- Enactment of Components Extracted from an Object-OrientedApplication.- Gossiping Components for Cyber-Physical Systems.- A Property Description Framework for Composable Software.- Layered Connectors: Revisiting the Formal Basis of Architectural Connection for Complex Distributed Systems.- Effort Estimation for Architectural Refactoring to Introduce Module Isolation.- Quality Attributes.- Interoperability-Related Architectural Problems and Solutions in Information Systems: A Scoping Study.- fUML-Driven Design and Performance Analysis of Software Agents for Wireless Sensor Network.- Runtime Enforcement of Dynamic Security Policies.- Architectural Support for Model-Driven Performance Prediction of Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems of Systems.- Safety Perspective for Supporting Architectural Design of Safety-Critical Systems.- Architecture Analysis and Verification.- How Do Software Architects Specify and Validate Quality Requirements.- Recommending Refactorings to Re-establish Architectural Consistency.- A Consistency Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration in AO-Middleware Architectures.

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