An investigation of a method for identifying a software architecture candidate with respect to quality attributes

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-181

  Svahnberg, Mikael ^a   Wohlin, Claes ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Quality attributes; Software architectures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESSES; INTUITION; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 17544366298     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-004-6190-y     Document Type: Article

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