Assessing suitability of cloud oriented platforms for application development

Proceedings - 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 328-335

  Sodhi, Balwinder ^a   Prabhakar, T V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Design decision; Evaluation scheme; MAUT; Nonfunctional quality attribute; Software design

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM; COMPUTING PLATFORM; DESIGN DECISION; ENTERPRISE DATA; EVALUATION METHOD; EVALUATION SCHEME; MAUT; NON-FUNCTIONAL; NONFUNCTIONAL QUALITY ATTRIBUTE; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; SYSTEMATIC METHOD;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80051973491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WICSA.2011.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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