Dealing with uncertainty in early software architecture

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Esfahani, Naeem ^a   Razavi, Kaveh ^a   Malek, Sam ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; software architecture; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DECISION; ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84871296779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393596.2393621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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