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Chapter 8
Accessing Decision Making
in Software Design*
Henri Christiaans
Delft University of Technology
Rita Assoreira Almendra
Technical University of Lisbon
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Reprinted from Design Studies 31 (6), Christiaans, H. and Almendra, R.A., Accessing decision-making in soware
design, 642–662, Copyright 2010, with permission from Elsevier.
CONTENTS
8.1 Introduction 108
8.2 Background 108
8.2.1 Domain-Specic “Language” 109
8.2.2 Design and Decision Making 110
8.3 Decision-Making Framework 111
8.4 Method 113
8.5 Analysis of the ree Protocols 114
8.5.1 Analysis of Protocols Using the Decision-Making Framework