A new AHP-based approach towards enterprise architecture quality attribute analysis

Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 333-342

  Davoudi, Mahsa Razavi ^a   Aliee, Fereidoon Shams ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

AHP; Assessment; Enterprise architecture (EA) analysis; Quality attributes

Indexed keywords

AHP; ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ASSESSMENT; DOMAIN EXPERTS; ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE (EA) ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUANTITATIVE METHOD;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70349465099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2009.5089297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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