Managing architectural decision models with dependency relations, integrity constraints, and production rules

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1249-1267

  Zimmermann, Olaf ^a   Koehler, Jana ^a   Leymann, Frank ^b   Polley, Ronny ^a   Schuster, Nelly ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architectural decision; Architectural knowledge; Decision dependencies; Decision tree; Dependency pattern; Enterprise application; Integration; Knowledge management; Model; SOA; UML; Web services

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DECISION; ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE; DECISION DEPENDENCIES; DEPENDENCY PATTERN; ENTERPRISE APPLICATION; SOA; UML;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DECISION TREES; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MODELS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; WEB SERVICES;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 67949085059     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.01.039     Document Type: Article

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