Refining partial systems applying architectural view patterns

Subject of this paper is the derivation of architectural views assigning a building block character and semantic status to components, connections and systems. At first, the concept of architecture types will be introduced. Next, architectural frames are derived as common development frameworks for application systems. The functional grouping of components and connections in architectural frames leads to the identification of partial systems. To substantiate the partial systems a methodical approach is introduced for their analysis and classification resulting in architectural view patterns. The application of a special architectural view pattern will be described and discussed for interactions in multi-agent systems.