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Chapter 9
What Makes Software
Design Effective?*
Antony Tang and Aldeida Aleti
Swinburne University of Technology
Janet Burge
Miami University
Hans van Vliet
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Reprinted from Design Studies 31 (6), Tang, A., Aleti, A., Burge, J. and van Vliet, H., What makes soware design eec-
tive?, 614–640, Copyright 2010, with permission from Elsevier.
CONTENTS
9.1 Introduction 130
9.2 Prior Works in Design Decision Making and Reasoning 131
9.2.1 Design Planning 131
9.2.2 Design Reasoning 131
9.2.3 Design Problem–Solution Coevolution 132
9.3 Studying Soware Design Reasoning and Decision Mak