Strengthen the Architecture Principle Definition and Its Characteristics: A Survey Encompassing 27 Years of Architecture Principle Literature

Although architecture principles are important in the implementation of information systems requirements, empirical evidence of the effect of architecture principles is lacking. Before actually conducting the empirical research, it is important to have a solid definition and description of the research object, i.e. the architecture principle. In this paper, we strengthen both the definition of the architecture principle and the description of its characteristics. With a model based analysis we investigated 27 years of literature on architecture principles and eliminated inaccuracies and incompleteness. This definition and description provides a basis for determining the impact of using architecture principles during the implementation of the information systems requirements in our next step of research.