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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures
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The Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

by Donald G. Firesmith, Peter Capell, Dietrich Falkenthal, Charles B. Hammons, DeWitt T. Latimer IV, Tom Merendino
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
512 pages
19h 52m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Appendix D
Decision-Making Techniques
By definition, the architecture of a system is the set of the most important, pervasive, top-level,
strategic decisions, inventions, engineering trade-offs, assumptions, and their associated rationales
concerning how the system and its components collaborate to meet their derived and allocated
requirements. Although a few of these architectural decisions, decisions, and trade-offs can be
made by an individual architect, many will require the collaboration of multiple architects within
a single architecture team or the collaboration of multiple architecture teams. Finally, whereas
many of these architectu
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ISBN: 9781420085761