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ASWEC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Framework for Classifying and Comparing Software Architecture Evaluation Methods
Software architecture evaluation has been proposed as a means to achieve quality attributes such as maintainability and reliability in a system. The objective of the evaluation is...
Muhammad Ali Babar, Liming Zhu, D. Ross Jeffery
APSEC
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Comparison of Scenario-Based Software Architecture Evaluation Methods
Software engineering community has proposed several methods to evaluate software architectures with respect to desired quality attributes such as maintainability, performance, and...
Muhammad Ali Babar, Ian Gorton
ICECCS
1998
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method
This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design. This method was developed to provi...
Rick Kazman, Mark H. Klein, Mario Barbacci, Thomas...
ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Experience with Performing Architecture Tradeoff Analysis
Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
COMPSAC
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Initial Design of the "Plug-n-Analyze" Framework for Architecture Tradeoff Analysis
This paper presents an initial design of the "Plug-nAnalyze" framework for the tradeoff analysisin determining architecture alternatives that have different strength and...
Hoh In, Ana Erendira Flores-Mendoza
ICMT
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using Metrics for Assessing the Quality of ASF+SDF Model Transformations
Model transformations are an essential part of Model Driven Engineering and are in many ways similar to traditional software artifacts. Therefore it is necessary to define and eva...
Marcel F. van Amstel, Christian F. J. Lange, Mark ...
COMPSAC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Requirements Driven Quality Control
The paper aims at presenting a method of controlling software quality attributes driven by the set of requirements. This is done in three steps: specifying all the requirements, ma...
Stanislaw Szejko
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Customizing AOSE methodologies by reusing AOSE features
Future large-scale software development projects will require engineering support for a diverse range of software quality attributes, such as privacy and openness. It is not feasi...
Thomas Juan, Leon Sterling, Maurizio Martelli, Viv...
SELMAS
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles
We argue that it is useful to study classes of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures, corresponding to architectural styles in addition to particular tures. In this work we focus ...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...
AOSE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Evaluating Multi-Agent System Architecture Candidates
Abstract. Although much effort has been spent on suggesting and implementing new architectures of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), the evaluation and comparison of these has often been d...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...