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UCI's software architecture research is directed at increasing the overall quality of software while reducing both the cost of development and time to market by focusing attention on high-level, principal design issues. We believe that architecture is not just a phase in the development life cycle, but a discipline pervading all phases of development. Our research in software architecture differs from other approaches because it focuses on four key principles of software architecture:

• extensibility - to address different concerns, different stakeholder needs, and different desired qualities,
• environments - to support architecture as a discipline throughout the lifecycle,
• architecture styles - to capture and reuse intellectual insights that ensure various qualities, and
• real systems - in addition to using our tools in industry, we use our tools to make our tools.