The many aspects of an IT-architecture

  • Authors:
  • Dieter K. Hammer

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ECBS'97 Proceedings of the 1997 international conference on Engineering of computer-based systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

An IT-Architecture can be viewed as a high-level design that supports and restricts the construction of IT-Systems of a given type. Starting from a list of general requirements, this paper gives an overview of the dimensions of such a design. In addition, the various, often contradicting, architectural views that are relevant for the various stakeholders are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the modeling of the system behavior and the related timing-and dependability constraints. Although, these issues are discussed in an object-oriented context, the underlying principles hold for other modeling techniques as well.