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Characterization of economic agents in arbitrary communication structures
Equilibrium Theory;Markets;economic theory
A Game of Attribute Decomposition for Software Architecture Design
Attribute-driven software architecture design aims to provide decision
support by taking into account the quality attributes of softwares. A central
question in this process is: What architecture design best fulfills the
desirable software requirements? To answer this question, a system designer
needs to make tradeoffs among several potentially conflicting quality
attributes. Such decisions are normally ad-hoc and rely heavily on experiences.
We propose a mathematical approach to tackle this problem. Game theory
naturally provides the basic language: Players represent requirements, and
strategies involve setting up coalitions among the players. In this way we
propose a novel model, called decomposition game, for attribute-driven design.
We present its solution concept based on the notion of cohesion and
expansion-freedom and prove that a solution always exists. We then investigate
the computational complexity of obtaining a solution. The game model and the
algorithms may serve as a general framework for providing useful guidance for
software architecture design. We present our results through running examples
and a case study on a real-life software project.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, a shorter version to appear at 12th
International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2015
07431 Abstracts Collection -- Computational Issues in Social Choice
From the 21st to the 26th of October 2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07431
on ``Computational Issues in Social Choice\u27\u27 was held
at the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl.
During the seminar, several participants presented their recent
research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed.
The abstracts of the talks given during the seminar are collected in this paper.
The first section summarises the seminar topics and goals in general.
Links to full papers are provided where available
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