The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

Firesmith, Donald; Capell, Peter; Hammons, Charles; Latimer, DeWitt; Merendino, Tom

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“…Rather, a more effective approach is to use method engineering (ME) to engineer one or more appropriate method for the engineering effort [Welke 1992, Brink-kemper 1996, Rolland 1997, Brinkkemper 1998, Firesmith 2002, Henderson-Sellers 2003, Firesmith 2008, Henderson-Sellers 2008, Rolland 2008. Often called situational method engineering (SME) because it seeks to engineer methods appropriate to the situation at hand, ME enables the production of appropriate system engineering methods that are specific to and appropriate for the given system, organizations, endeavors, and stakeholders.…”

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“…System a cohesive integrated group of interdependent or interacting components that regularly collaborate to provide the behavior and characteristics that (1) are needed to meet valid stakeholder needs and desires and (2) cannot be provide separately by the individual components [Firesmith 2008] As implied by the second half of the preceding definition, a system is more than the sum of its parts because a system provides beneficial emergent behavior or characteristics that are not present in its individual components working independently. For example, the car in your garage is a system, whereas all of the component parts of your car lying on the floor of your garage would not be a system.…”

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Profiling Systems Using the Defining Characteristics of Systems of Systems (SoS)

Firesmith¹

2010

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Section: Almost Every System Is Technically a System Of Systemsmentioning

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Profiling Systems Using the Defining Characteristics of Systems of Systems (SoS)

Firesmith¹

2010

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“…Thereby, it is used to guide the development of architectures used for speci¯c applications, as di®erent frameworks concentrate on and stress di®erent, e.g. scopes, intentions and domains [18]. Hence, a framework is a basic conceptual structure, which hosts, e.g.…”

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“…The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA) is an extensive meta-method for development of architecture engineering methods [49]. MFESA consists of a comprehensive ontology of concepts and terminology related to system architecture engineering.…”

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Ontology for Systems Development

Hallberg

Jungert

Pilemalm

2014

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Software-intensive information systems have a major impact on our lives, both privately and professionally. Development of these systems is a complex activity that requires the involvement of people with di®erent competences and skills. Even though software-intensive systems have been developed since the 1960s, the success rate is still low. A major hindrance to successful system development projects is the lack of consistent terminology. Since systems development is a collaborative activity, involving not only systems developers but also domain experts and user representatives, the understanding of each other is a prerequisite for an e®ective collaboration. The aim of this paper is to explore and present de¯nitions, dependencies, and relationships of the most fundamental concepts in systems development in the form of an ontology. The ontology consists of four categories of concepts: General concepts, Description concepts, Realization concepts, and Appearance concepts. The two core concepts in the ontology are Systems and Systems development.

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“…There are also some attempts such as (Hofmeister et al, 2005;Hofmeister et al, 2007) to develop a general model of software architecture design. Furthermore, studies to develop techniques and methods for quality assessment of software system architectures (Kazman et al, 2001;Firesmith et al, 2006) are also conducted.…”

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Multi-View Software Architecture Design: Case Study of a Mission-Critical Defense System

Demir¹

2015

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An architecture outlines what a system can or cannot do. Attention to software architecture is essential for successful product developments. Therefore, software architecture development is a crucial phase in software development process. As the software intensive systems become complex, software architects face with the challenges of dealing with multiple sometimes conflicting concerns at the same time. Satisfaction of quality requirements can be achieved via a good software architecture design. Since the quality requirements are multi-faceted, the software architects have to consider many diverse aspects and provide a software architectural solution that can optimally satisfy functional and quality requirements. Such a solution requires a multi-view software architecture design as the result of a systematic architecture development process. Case studies are helpful in bridging the gap between academia and industry. Research studies including carefully designed case studies will help practitioners to understand the theoretical concepts and apply novel research findings in their practices. Hence, in this study, we explain a multi-view software architecture design process with the help of a mission-critical defense system development case study. In the study, we explain the multi-view software architecture design step by step starting with identifying the system context, requirements, constraints, and quality expectations. We further outline the strategies, techniques, designs, and rationales used to satisfy a diverse set of requirements with a particular software architecture pattern. We also introduce a novel architectural style, named as "star-controller architectural style". We explain the use of the style with a related discussion.

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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

Cited by 26 publications

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Profiling Systems Using the Defining Characteristics of Systems of Systems (SoS)

Profiling Systems Using the Defining Characteristics of Systems of Systems (SoS)

Ontology for Systems Development

Multi-View Software Architecture Design: Case Study of a Mission-Critical Defense System

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