Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Problem Statement; 1.2 Research Questions & Contribution; 1.2.1 Research Questions; 1.2.2 Contribution; 1.3 Outline; 2 Background; 2.1 Requirements Engineering; 2.1.1 Quality Requirements; 2.1.2 Problem Frames; 2.2 Software Architecture Concepts; 2.2.1 Definition of Software Architecture; 2.2.2 Difference between Architecture and Design; 2.2.3 Architectural Patterns; 2.2.4 Quality-specific Mechanisms and Tactics; 2.2.5 Viewpoint Models; 2.2.6 Architecture Description Languages vs UML; 2.2.7 Architecture Evaluation

2.3 UML Profiles2.3.1 UML profile for Problem Frames; 2.3.2 Architecture Profile; 2.3.3 Dependability Profile; 2.3.4 MARTE Profile; 2.4 Life-Cycle Expressions; 2.5 Variability Modeling; 2.6 Case Study Smart Grid; 2.6.1 Description of Smart Grids; 2.6.2 Functional Requirements; 2.6.3 Security Requirements; 2.6.4 Performance Requirements; 3 Framework for Identifying Meta-Requirements; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Meta-Requirement Derivation; 3.2.1 Essential Meta-Requirements; 3.2.2 Recommended Meta-Requirements; 3.2.3 Optional Meta-Requirements; 3.2.4 Method Characteristics

3.3 The Evaluation Framework NIMSAD3.3.1 Methodology Context; 3.3.2 Methodology User; 3.3.3 Methodology Contents; 3.3.4 Evaluation; 3.4 Our Proposed Evaluation Framework; 3.5 Related Review; 3.6 Research Method; 3.6.1 Planning Phase; 3.6.2 Conducting Phase; 3.7 Results and Discussion; 3.7.1 Description of Selected Methods; 3.7.2 Results of the SLR; 3.8 Comparative Evaluation; 3.8.1 Value Assignment Schema; 3.8.2 Framework Application; 3.9 Threats to Validity; 3.10 Contributions; 4 Phase 1: Context Elicitation & Problem Analysis; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 UML4PF Extension for Quality Requirements

4.3 Method for Problem-oriented Requirement Analysis4.4 Related Work; 4.5 Contributions; 5 Phase 2: Architectural Pattern Selection & Application; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Artifacts and their Relations; 5.3 External Input for the Process; 5.3.1 Question Catalog (Questions); 5.3.2 Question Catalog (Indicator Questions); 5.3.3 Relations between Problem Frames and Questions; 5.3.4 Benefits and Liabilities of Architectural Patterns; 5.3.5 Architectural Pattern Catalog; 5.4 The Pattern Selection Process; 5.5 Application to the Case Study Smart Grid; 5.6 Derivation of Initial Architecture

5.6.1 Design Desicion regarding Architectural Pattern Selection5.6.2 Design Desicion regarding Gateway Physical Boundary; 5.6.3 Further Iterations
Problem Diagram Splitting; 5.6.4 Method for Deriving Initial Architecture; 5.7 Related Work; 5.8 Contributions; 6 Phase 3: Domain Knowledge Analysis; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Structured Meta-Process; 6.3 Structured Object-Process; 6.4 Related Work; 6.5 Contributions; 7 Phase 4: Requirements Interaction Analysis; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Functional Requirements Interaction Detection; 7.2.1 Sunblind Example