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| Criterion | ![]() Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns | ![]() Architecture ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. | 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. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 h pro Pattern | Several meetings plus preparation and analysis; total effort depends on scope | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-15 | 1-6 | Evaluation team, architects, and relevant stakeholders | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | Prioritized quality scenarios in a utility tree, Architecture risks with reasoning and assumptions, Sensitivity and trade-off points, Findings report with open investigations | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | ArchitectureQualityRiskTradeoffsStakeholders | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |



