Product Description

Today's architecting must handle 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 introduces 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 and many revised sections, this book maintains the high standards set by the best-selling first edition. This volume provides the concepts, tools, and techniques needed to conceive and build complex systems.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #585483 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 344 pages

Review
"The only way to develop this skill is to serve an apprenticeship with a proven practitioner. However, there are simply not enough gurus to go around, and I would recommend this book both for students of the discipline and as serious reading for experienced designers who wish to recognize and maintain their expertise." -E. James in Computing Millieux

From the Back Cover
Today's architecting must handle systems of types unknown until very 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.