The production and assurance of systems that are safety-critical and/or real-time is recognised as being costly, time-consuming, hard to manage, and difficult to maintain. This has led to a great deal of work into developing approaches for producing dependable components and their interfaces. An issue that remains is the way in which decisions are taken so that the system's objectives are met. This paper presents a method for performing trade-off analysis concentrating here on the non-functional aspects.

BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{Bate2002,
 author = {Iain Bate and Neil Audsley},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Component-based Software Engineering},
 category = {design},
 title = {Architecture Trade-off Analysis and the Influence on Component Design},
 year = {2002}
}