A high-quality software architecture facilitates in developing a high quality software-intensive system. To design such architecture, the architect must consider multiple stakeholders' inconsistent, contradictory, and partially understood objectives, and balance the myriad tradeoffs among them. Our approach proposes to balance quality attributes in software architectures by identify the important-yet-to-be-addressed quality attributes during the design process and provide architecture analysis methods to help compare the resulting architecture candidates with respect to required quality attributes.
['Lihua Xu']
Moda - multiple objective decision analysis: balancing quality attributes in software architectures