• The Architecture to be analyzed.

• The Application Subset. This parameter is optional and is used to reduce the scope of the study to a subset of the different applications used in the architecture.

• The Artifact Subset. This is also an optional parameter. This is used to reduce the scope of the study to a selection of artifacts. If no artifact is selected, all the artifacts of the architecture are included in the analysis.

• The Resource Architecture Subset, which is also optional. This parameter is set with a subset of the resource architectures defined in the architecture. If this parameter is not set, all the resource architectures of the architecture are taken into account in the analysis.