Mario R. Barbacci

Software Engineering Institute

Publications by Mario R. Barbacci

Integrating the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) with the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)

December 01, 2003 • Technical Note

Robert Nord Mario R. Barbacci Paul C. Clements

This technical note reports on a proposal to integrate the SEI ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) and the CBAM (Cost Benefit Analysis Method).
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Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition

October 01, 2003 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Robert J. Ellison Anthony J. Lattanze

This report describes the newly revised QAW (Quality Attribute Workshop) and describes potential uses of the refined scenarios generated during it.
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Using the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) to Evaluate the Software Architecture for a Product Line of Avionics Systems: A Case Study

July 01, 2003 • Technical Note

Mario R. Barbacci Paul C. Clements Anthony J. Lattanze

This 2003 technical note describes an ATAM evaluation of the software architecture for an avionics system developed for the Technology Applications Program Office (TAPO) of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Office.
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Interactions Among Techniques Addressing Quality Attributes

June 01, 2003 • Technical Report

Hernan R. Eguiluz Mario R. Barbacci

This report provides software architects a chart for determining the relationships among techniques that promote different architectural qualities.
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DoD Architecture Framework and Software Architecture Workshop Report

March 01, 2003 • Technical Note

William G. Wood Lyn Uzzle John Weiler

This report summarizes the activities of the Workshop on the Department of the 2003 Defense Architecture Framework and Software Architecture workshop.
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SEI Architecture Analysis Techniques and When to Use Them

October 01, 2002 • Technical Note

Mario R. Barbacci

When analyzing system and software architectures, the Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) and the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) can be used in combination to obtain early and continuous benefits.
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Quality Attribute Workshops, 2nd Edition

June 01, 2002 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Robert J. Ellison Anthony J. Lattanze

This report clarifies the context in which a QAW (Quality Attribute Workshop) is applicable, provides a rationale for developing the process and describes it in detail, and concludes with a list of lessons learned and a discussion of how these lessons have helped evolve the process to its current state.
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Quality Attribute Workshops

May 01, 2001 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Robert J. Ellison Judith A. Stafford

This report describes the QAW (Quality Attribute Workshop) approach, which is a method for evaluating a software-intensive system architecture during the acquisition phase of major programs.
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Using Quality Attribute Workshops to Evaluate Architectural Design Approaches in a Major System Acquisition: A Case Study

July 01, 2000 • Technical Note

John K. Bergey Mario R. Barbacci William G. Wood

This report describes a series of Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs) that were conducted on behalf of a government agency during its competitive acquisition of a complex, tactical, integrated command and control system.
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News At SEI: Quality Attribute Workshop

June 01, 2000 • Newsletter

Mario R. Barbacci

In this column, I describe one way for combining several of these components into a process that allows early insight into a system's architecture, including its quality-attribute sensitivities, tradeoffs, and risks.
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Quality Attribute Workshop Participants Handbook

January 01, 2000 • Special Report

Mario R. Barbacci Robert J. Ellison Charles B. Weinstock

This report describes the 1) process we use to conduct QAW (Quality Attribute Workshop), 2) information required, 3) suggested tools, and 4) expected outcomes of QAWs.
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Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems

October 01, 1999 • Technical Report

Steve Woods Mario R. Barbacci

This report identifies features in agent-based systems that could be used to classify agent-system architectures and to guide the generation of scenarios applicable to these architectures.
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Architecture Tradeoff Analyses of C4ISR Products

July 01, 1999 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci William G. Wood

This report describes how various C4ISR products can be used in the context of an ATAM evaluation and their relative value for generating quality attribute-specific scenarios required for an ATAM evaluation.
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Mapping MetaH into ACME

July 01, 1998 • Special Report

Mario R. Barbacci Charles B. Weinstock

This 1998 report explores the translation of MetaH into ACME.
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The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

July 01, 1998 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein Mario R. Barbacci

This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in the architectures of software-intensive systems.
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Steps in an Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method: Quality Attribute Models and Analysis

May 01, 1998 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Peter H. Feiler Mark H. Klein

This paper presents some of the steps in an emerging architecture tradeoff analysis method (ATAM).
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The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

April 01, 1998 • White Paper

Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein Mario R. Barbacci

This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design.
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Principles for Evaluating the Quality Attributes of a Software Architecture

May 01, 1997 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Mark H. Klein Charles B. Weinstock

This report describes a few principles for analyzing a software architecture to determine if it exhibits certain quality attributes.
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Quality Attributes

December 01, 1995 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Mark H. Klein Thomas A. Longstaff

This report describes efforts to develop a unifying approach for reasoning about multiple software quality attributes.
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Durra: A Task Description Language User's Manual (Version 2)

December 01, 1992 • Technical Report

Dennis N. Doubleday Mario R. Barbacci

This 1992 document describes the use of Durra, a task-level application description language, and its associated toolset.
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Durra: A Task-Level Description Language Reference Manual (Version 3)

December 01, 1991 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Dennis N. Doubleday Michael J. Gardner

This 1991 report describes the Durra language and incorporates the language changes introduced as a result of our experiences writing application descriptions in Durra.
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Building Distributed ADA Applications from Specifications and Functional Components

December 01, 1991 • Technical Report

Dennis N. Doubleday Mario R. Barbacci Charles B. Weinstock

This report describes Durra, a language and support environment for the specification and execution of distributed Ada applications.
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Durra: An Integrated Approach to Software Specification, Modeling, and Rapid Prototyping

September 01, 1991 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Dennis N. Doubleday Charles B. Weinstock

This 1991 paper discusses the relationship between software specification, modeling and prototyping activities as part of a real-time system development strategy.
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Durra: A Task-Level Description Language User's Manual

September 01, 1989 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Dennis N. Doubleday Charles B. Weinstock

This manual is for users of the Durra compiler, runtime system, and support tools.
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Durra: A Task-Level Description Language Reference Manual (Version 2)

September 01, 1989 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci J. Wing

This 1989 report is a revised version of the original Durra reference manual. This revision describes the syntax and semantics of the language and incorporates several language changes.
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Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence Node: A Durra Application Example

February 01, 1989 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Dennis N. Doubleday Charles B. Weinstock

This report describes an experiment in implementing a command, control, communications and intelligence (C3I) node using reusable components.
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The Software Technical Review Process

July 01, 1988 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci

This 1988 report describes MasterTask, a program that can emulate any task in an application by interpreting the timing expression describing the behavior of the task, performing the input and output port operations in the proper sequence and at the prope
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MasterTask: The Durra Task Emulator

July 01, 1988 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci

This 1988 report describes MasterTask, a program that can emulate any task in an application by interpreting the timing expression describing the behavior of the task, performing the input and output port operations in the proper sequence and at the proper time.
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The Durra Runtime Environment

July 01, 1988 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Dennis N. Doubleday Charles B. Weinstock

This 1988 report describes the Durra Runtime Environment for Durra, a language designed to support PMS-level programming.
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Generalized Image Library: A Durra Application Example

July 01, 1988 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci Dennis N. Doubleday

This 1988 report describes an experiment in writing task descriptions and type declarations for a subset of the Generalized Image Library, a collection of utilities developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Specifying Functional and Timing Behavior for Real-Time Applications

December 01, 1986 • Technical Report

Mario R. Barbacci J. Wing

This 1986 report presents a notation and a methodology for specifying the functional and timing behavior of real-time applications for a heterogeneous machine.
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