Towards an Ontology Approach to ATAM Based Assessment of Service Oriented Architectures

Abstract

In this paper we describe SOAROAD (SOA Related Ontology
of Architectural Decisions), which was developed to support eva-
luation of architectures of information systems using SOA techno-
logies. The main goal of the ontology is to provide constructs for
documenting service-oriented architectures, however, it is designed
to support future reasoning. Building the ontology we focused on
the requirements of Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)
which was chosen as reference methodology for architecture eva-
luation.