The layered architecture revisited: Is it an optimization problem?

The layered architecture revisited: Is it an optimization problem?
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Alvine Boaye-Belle, Ghizlane El Boussaidi, Christian Desrosiers, Hafedh Mili
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2013)(Boston, MA, USA, June 27-29, 2013)p. 344-349.Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School.