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Jean-Luc WIPPLER: Senior Systems Architect - Self-employed contractor LUCA Ingénierie, France
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Dominique LUZEAUX: Ingénieur général de l'armement, qualified to direct research - Ministry of the Armed Forces
INTRODUCTION
Defining the architecture of a system of interest can be seen as the expression of a strategy or vision for the system. Knowing how to develop and design a good architecture has a number of beneficial effects for system engineering, such as the ability to organize work packages, control interfaces, and achieve and maintain cost/performance trade-offs.
The different activities involved in designing architecture, and the reasoning methods required, are detailed in this article.
Once the architecture has been designed, it needs to be reported on and shared with various stakeholders. However, given the diversity of stakeholders and issues, there can be no single point of view, but rather different views grouped into different points of view (for a given community). This is made possible by the definition of architecture frameworks that are part of a governance approach at project or company level, discussed at the end of this article.
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Architecture and architectural design of complex systems
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Bibliography
Software tools
The design and validation of complex system architectures are generally covered by software tools:
that are general in scope and not linked to the specific field of architecture. For example, note-taking or mind-mapping tools can be used to support the perception of what already exists;
or very specific and often proprietary tools. For example, a "Battle...
Events
CSDM (Complex Systems Design and Management) conference, held every year in Paris.
The INCOSE conference takes place every year, at different venues.
IEEE ISSE Conference, held every year at different venues.
Standards and norms
- ISO Systems and software engineering – Software lifecycle processes - ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2008 - 2008
- ISO Systems and software engineering – System lifecycle processes - ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015 - 2015
- ISO Enterprise, systems and software – Architecture processes - ISO/IEC/IEEE 42020:201x - En développement
- ISO Industrial automation systems – Requirements for enterprise reference architectures and...
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