The Art of Systems Architecting FROM THE PUBLISHER
Today's architecting must handle systems of types unknown untilvery recently. New domains, including personal computers, intersatellite networks, health services, and joint service command and control are calling for new architectures-and for architects specializing in those domains. Since the original publication, of this bestselling text, these new and emerging fields have contributed architectural concepts and tools of their own to the relatively new formalism-and evolving profession-called Systems Architecting.
The Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition restates and extends into the future the classical architecting paradigm, incorporating the most broadly applicable of these contributions. It remains the most innovative, insightful treatment available to the discipline, providing both the academic and the industrial communities with the up-to-date tools, concepts, and techniques needed to conceive and build complex systems.
SYNOPSIS
Today's architecting must handle the types of systems that have been unknown until very recently, e.g., systems that are very high-quality, real-time, closed-loop, reconfigurable, interactive, software-intensive, and, for all practical purposes, autonomous. The Art of Systems Architecting provides these tools by introducing the non-qualitative architectural concepts of systems thinking, heuristics, tensions, feedback architectures, modeling, and progressive design. With two new chapters, three new case studies, several new sections, and many revised sections, this updated Second Edition maintains the high standards set by the first, best-selling edition.
Features: Two new chapters, three new case studies, and new and revised sections-30% more information Offers a table with almost 200 design heuristics, which allows you speedy access to the underpinnings of principal design guidelines Provides specific guidance on what architects produce and how they operate
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
Richter (engineering, U. of Southern California) seems to have created the abomination of a verb, and uses it to mean creating and building systems too complex to be treated by engineering analysis alone. He and Maier, an engineer with an aerospace company, restate and extend his paradigm that the same approaches and concerns have been guiding architects from the first human societies through the computer, networking, and other complex systems at the end of the 20th century. They look at such aspects as manufacturing and social systems, software and information technology, models and modeling, and the profession itself. They include a glossary without pronunciation guides. The first edition appeared in 1996. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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