期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science Issues
印刷版ISSN：1694-0784
电子版ISSN：1694-0814
出版年度：2011
卷号：8
期号：4
出版社：IJCSI Press
摘要：In order to produce and develop a software system, it is necessary to have a method of choosing a suitable software architecture which satisfies the required quality attributes and maintains a trade-off between sometimes conflicting ones. Each software architecture includes a set of design decisions for each of which there are various alternatives, satisfying the quality attributes differently. At the same time various stakeholders with various quality goals participate in decision-making. In this paper a numerical method is proposed that based on the quality attributes selects the suitable software architecture for a certain software. In this method, for each design decision, different alternatives are compared in view of a certain quality attribute, and the other way around. Multi-criteria decision-making methods are used and, at the same time, time and cost constraints are considered in decision-making, too. The proposed method applies the stakeholders� opinions in decision-making according to the degree of their importance and helps the architect to select the best software architecture with more certainty.
