Architectural design has been characterized as making a series of decisions that have system-wide impact. These decisions have side effects which can have significant impact on the...
: This paper discusses the understanding of quality attributes and their application to the design of a software architecture. We present an approach to characterizing quality attr...
Software architects have techniques to deal with many quality attributes such as performance, reliability, and maintainability. Usability, however, has traditionally been concerned...
The paper discusses the innovative patterns such as subtraction, multiplication, division, task unification and attribute dependency change for evaluating the software architectur...
A typical software architecture design process requires the architects to make various trade-off architecture decisions. The architects need to consider different possibilities and...