A quality-driven systematic approach for architecting distributed software applications

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 244-253

  Ai Naeem, Tariq ^a   Gorton, Ian ^b   Babar, Muhammed Ali ^a,b   Rabhi, Fethi ^a   Benatallah, Boualem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Optimization; Software architecture design; Software quality

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; SOFTWARE QUALITY; STAKEHOLDERS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 27844611786     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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