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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Linked Open Terms with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Linked Open Terms
Paper illustration of NeOn Methodology with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
NeOn Methodology
Purposedifferent
ATAM helps teams weigh architecture decisions when quality goals compete. The team considers business goals, stakeholder expectations, and technical decisions together. The evaluation shows which risks need further investigation.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.Linked Open Terms connects terminology work with linked-data thinking and makes terminology technically connectable. Vocabulary, meanings, and references can thereby be maintained consistently.The NeOn Methodology structures ontology work as a controlled process with reuse, scenarios, and reviews. It is useful when ontologies should not emerge ad hoc but modularly and reusably.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalWochen bis MonateMehrere Wochen bis Monate
Participantsdifferent
Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholdersDesigners, developers as users, and facilitation2-82-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigationsPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsOntology Requirements, Conceptual Model, Published Ontology, Documentation, Maintenance PlanOntology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report
Tagsno overlap
ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
OntologyMethodologyAgileSemantic
OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering
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