Selection of Architecture Styles using Analytic Network Process for the Optimization of Software Architecture

Abstract: The continuing process of software systems enlargement in size and complexity becomes system design extremely important for software production. In this way, the role of software architecture is significantly important in software development. It serves as an evaluation and implementation plan for software development and software evaluation. Consequently, choosing the correct architecture is a critical issue in software engineering domain. Moreover,software architecture selection is a multicriteria decision-making problem in which different goals and objectives must be taken into consideration. In this paper, more precise and suitable decisions in selection of architecture styles have been presented by using ANP inference to support decisions of software architects in order to exploit properties of styles in the best way to optimize the design of software architecture.