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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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3Chapter
System Architecture
Engineering Principles
3.1 The Importance of Principles
System architecture engineering (SAE) should be founded on a consistent set of underlying prin-
ciples that drive how it should be performed and the work products that it should produce. ese
principles should be reasonably small in number and at a high level of abstraction. ese principles
should also be clearly identifiable, well defined, and have rationales based on experiences and prac-
tical lessons learned during the engineering of real system architectures. Because we have found
the following SAE principles to be fundamental and a foundation on which S
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ISBN: 9781420085761