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MFESA: An Overview
4.1 The Need for MFESA
Historically, most system-development projects have used previously existing, general-purpose
methods to specify the architecture engineering process their architects are to perform. ese reus-
able methods are often (1) organizational standard methods, (2) methods largely based on an inter-
national or military standard, (3) industry domain-specific methods, or (4) methods drawn from
a book, article, or conference paper or tutorial on architecture engineering. Often, these methods
were chosen because they were methods with which the chief architects were already familiar.
However, there ...