Abstract Requirement Analysis in Multiagent System Design

Good, fast, or cheap, pick two. What drives designers to make decisions on how to architect a system? The stake-holder has certain abstract qualities in mind: efficiency, quality, reliability, and so forth. How do we make sure our system is guided by these qualities? What happens when the system cannot always provide all the qualities? We describe a framework for analyzing a design allowing decisions about what qualities are more important to be made at design-time.