Название: The Art of Systems Architecting, 4th Edition
Автор: Mark W. Maier, Eberhardt Rechtin
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 520
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 24.7 MB

The Art of Systems Architecting, Fourth Edition, provides structured heuristics to improve the least structured, most art‑like elements of systems design. It offers unique techniques to bridge the difference between scientific engineering and qualitative design along with comprehensive methods for combining architectural design with digital engineering. This book illustrates how to go from model‑based systems architecture to model‑based systems engineering and includes case studies of good and bad architectural decision‑making in major systems.

Changes to this edition include materials on architecture processes, architecture description frameworks, and integration with model‑based systems engineering (MBSE) and digital engineering. The publication of the ANSI/IEEE 1471 and ISO/IEC 42010 standards on architecture description has provided common vocabulary and organizing methods for documenting architectures. This edition provides a practical application of these standards in architecting and integrating their concepts with a simple process framework. The rise of MBSE and digital engineering tools is in the process of revolutionizing the development of complex systems. The emphasis has been on detailed design descriptions and powerful analysis methods (for example, digital twins). Architects can make effective use of these methods and tools as well, and this new edition provides an integrated set of heuristics and modeling methods to do so. There are many other improvements and additions included to bring this textbook up to date.

Software architecture and architecting have received considerable attention recently. Much of the work in software architecture focuses on architectural structures and their analysis. Just as the term “architectural style” has a definite meaning in civil architecture, the usage is attached to style in software work. In the terminology of this book, work on software architecture styles is attempting to find and classify the high‐level forms of software and their application to particular problems. Focusing on architecture is a natural progression of software and programming research that has steadily ascended the ladder of abstraction. Work on structured programming led to structured design and to the multitasking and object‐oriented models later generalized to multidisciplinary and multiview approaches described in Chapter 10. The next stage of the progression is to further classify the large‐scale structures that appear as software systems become progressively larger and more complex.

This book presents some common threads of the architectural process that underlie the generation of architectures in many domains. Once a particular domain is entered, such as software, the architect should make full use of the understood styles, frameworks, or patterns in that domain. The flavor of current work in software architecture is best captured by reviewing some of its key ideas. These include the classification of architectural styles, patterns and pattern languages in software, and software frameworks.

This book can be used as a reference book for engineers and managers involved in creating new systems, people responsible for developing mandated architecture descriptions, software architects, system architects, and systems engineers, or as a textbook in graduate engineering courses.

Exercises are interspersed throughout the text, with some designed for self‑testing and understanding and others intended to provide opportunities for long‑term study and further exploration of the subject.