A Generic Model for Software Architectures

Complex systems require an especially high level of coordination and integration. To address this need, the authors developed GenSIF, a generic framework to help developers understand software and integration issues in domain-specific, large-scale systems development. he software research community has expended much effort to identify and specify advanced process models , especially models of the systems development process. This has given us a variety of process models , supporting tools, and related information models. However, complex systems require an especially high level of coordination and integration—one that is related to software design concepts. 1 Only recently have these concepts been recognized under the " domain-specific software architectures " label. The Engineering of Computer-Based Systems model, developed by the IEEE Technical Committee on ECBS, identifies the major artifacts and their interrelationships in computer-based systems development. 2 Figure 1 shows the constituents of this model: process, architecture, information , and methods and tools.