Automatic enforcement of constraints in real-time collaborative architectural decision making

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 128-149

  Gaubatz, Patrick ^a   Lytra, Ioanna ^a   Zdun, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Decision making constraint; Reusable architectural decision model

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SEMANTICS;

ARCHITECTURAL DECISION; ARCHITECTURAL DECISION MAKINGS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN DECISIONS; COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; GLOBALLY-DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; REAL-TIME COLLABORATIVE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84924868907     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.01.056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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