Using planning techniques to assist quality-driven architectural design exploration

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4880 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 33-52

  Díaz Pace, J Andrés ^a,c   Campo, Marcelo R ^b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISISTAN Research Institute   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence techniques; Quality driven mechanisms; Software architecture design; Tool support

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DESIGN; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOLUTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DESIGN EXPLORATION; DESIGN SPACES; HIERARCHICAL PLANNING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MIXED INITIATIVES; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; QUALITY-DRIVEN MECHANISMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; TOOL SUPPORT; TOOL SUPPORTS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 49949089558     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77619-2_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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