On the Role of Quality Attributes in Specifying Software/System Architecture for Intelligent Systems

In recent years, researchers in software engineering have been exploring a range of issues on software and system architectures. One area that directly affects intelligent system is software and system architecture. Recent findings offer evidence that software architecture can be developed based on a set of well-defined concepts and methods. In this paper, we examine this line of research and its role in the field of intelligent systems. We suggest using architecture lifecycle as an approach to deriving architectures for intelligent systems. We introduce intelligence quality attribute and propose using it with a set of existing quality attributes to support incremental, evolutionary specification and evaluation of intelligent software/system architectures.