Economics-Driven Software Architecture

Subject Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “f”, and “t” refers to figures and tables respectively.

A

Accidental complexity, 107, 133

Actual depreciation, 49, 49

Actuators, 69–71

Adaptation cost, 254

Adaptive Software Development (ASD), 271

Adaptive software systems, 246

Adaptors, 69–71, 73

Additive weighting, 56–57

Adobe Buzzword, 161

ADVISES project, 311–312, 312f, 313f, 314–315

Aesthetic values, 306

Affinity diagram, 174–175, 175f

“After-sales service,” in automotive industry, 256

Agents, 86

Agile methodologies, 266

Agile methods, 173–174

Agility and architecture, 6

Alpine Software, 40, 42, 45

Alstom, 57

Alternative, concept of, 38

Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), 168, 178

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 83, 278–279

Analysis Framework (AF), 285