Knowledge based quality-driven architecture design and evaluation

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 577-601

  Ovaska, Eila ^a   Evesti, Antti ^a   Henttonen, Katja ^a   Palviainen, Marko ^a   Aho, Pekka ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Model driven development; Ontology; Quality attribute; Software architecture; Tool

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL MODELS; ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND EVALUATION; ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; DESIGN FLOWS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; EVALUATION; EVALUATION MODELS; HIGH-QUALITY SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE MODELLING; MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES; MODEL DRIVEN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PEER TO PEER; QUALITY ASPECTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTE; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUALITY PROPERTIES; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTING; SOURCE CODES; SUPPORTING TOOL;

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; MODELS; ONTOLOGY; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77950367988     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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