Empirical-based design — quality-driven assembly of components

The importance of providing integration architectures in every field of application is beyond controversy these days. Unfortunately existing solutions are mainly focusing on functionality. But for the success of Systems Integration in the long run, the quality of developed architectures is of substantial interest. Existing quality-related information can be reused to optimize this assembly of components to thereby always provide the best possible combination. For this purpose a framework for the quality-driven creation of architectures is proposed in this paper. Besides this quality-oriented characteristic, the usage of semantic knowledge and structured process descriptions enable an automatic procedure. Especially the combination of both is a promising approach.