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The Art of Systems Architecting
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.
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.
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.
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.
520 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 28, 2000
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February 23, 2021
Très intéressant ouvrage sur l'architecture des systèmes. Il regroupe des visions technique et organisationnelles de ce que peuvent être différents systèmes, aussi bien dans le domaine aérospatial que dans le domaine informatique ou dans les domaines organisationnels. Une des valeurs essentielles de ce livre est d'apporter à un ensemble d'heuristiques qui démontrent bien que l'architecture se situe un niveau orthogonal de l'intérêt de l'ingénierie. En effet, l'ingénieur conçoit un système à partir de contraintes explicites, alors que l'architecte discute avec le client et les équipes en charge de la réalisation technique pour définir un compromis permettant d'exprimer ces contraintes qui nourriront l'ingénieur. C'est à mon avis une lecture indispensable surtout quand, comme moi, on vient du monde de l'ingénieur.
January 7, 2022
Not my favorite book on engineering. The chapters aren't really in harmony with each other. Heuristics, GPS, Political Processes of...?
November 30, 2022
interesting and fairly easy to comprehend
February 11, 2013
The book is a great resource for defining, evaluating and comparing system architectures. Positive and negative case studies are boiled down into concise heuristics. The book develops a taxonomy of system architectures that allows useful comparison between systems. The book is lengthy and very "meta". It is a bit of a personal investment to get through it, but I think that its lessons are useful.
October 20, 2009
Don lent me this book so I could get an intro into a Systems Architecting Program he took. It was interesting but I expected something a little more substantial on the topic. (Probably more the fault of the discipline itself than the author's.)
March 17, 2013
Great and though provoking book on how to think about complex systems.
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