TY - JOUR
T1 - A methodology for generating systems architectural glimpse statements using the 5w1h maxim
AU - Voutyras, Orfefs
AU - Bokhari, Aamir H.
AU - Tsuge, Akira
AU - Palaiokrassas, Georgios
AU - Kawasaki, Takafumi
AU - Cases-Camats, Xavier
AU - Nakazawa, Jin
AU - Litke, Antonios
AU - Okoshi, Tadashi
AU - Varvarigou, Theodora
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission under the H2020 Programme’s project M-Sec (“Multi-layered Security technologies to ensure hyper connected smart cities with Blockchain, BigData, Cloud and IoT”, grant agreement nr. 814917) and the National Institute of Information and communications-National Research and Development Agency.
Funding Information:
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Commission under the H2020 Programme?s project M-Sec (?Multi-layered Security technologies to ensure hyper connected smart cities with Blockchain, BigData, Cloud and IoT?, grant agreement nr. 814917) and the National Institute of Information and communications-National Research and Development Agency.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Attempts to facilitate and streamline systems architecting have resulted in a great number of reusable principles, practices, mechanisms, frameworks, and tools. Such a practice is the use of architectural viewpoints and views. However, as systems change, these practices should also evolve. The increasing scale and complexity of systems resulting from an ever-growing pool of human needs and breakthroughs may lead, in some cases, to an increased gap between the abstraction activities attempting to capture the whole of a system, and the instantiation activities that produce concrete and detailed descriptions of a system’s architecture. To address this issue, this article introduces a new notion, that of architectural glimpse statements, fundamental questions acting as the building blocks for architectural views and products. This notion can help architects ask the right questions in the right manner to create fundamental statements, the elaboration on which can lead directly to concrete architectural products. Working on top of standardized and common approaches, the article introduces a language for the creation of architectural glimpse statements using the 5W1H maxim. Based on this language, a tool and guidelines are also provided to facilitate the usage of glimpses. Finally, the overall methodology is demonstrated in two case studies.
AB - Attempts to facilitate and streamline systems architecting have resulted in a great number of reusable principles, practices, mechanisms, frameworks, and tools. Such a practice is the use of architectural viewpoints and views. However, as systems change, these practices should also evolve. The increasing scale and complexity of systems resulting from an ever-growing pool of human needs and breakthroughs may lead, in some cases, to an increased gap between the abstraction activities attempting to capture the whole of a system, and the instantiation activities that produce concrete and detailed descriptions of a system’s architecture. To address this issue, this article introduces a new notion, that of architectural glimpse statements, fundamental questions acting as the building blocks for architectural views and products. This notion can help architects ask the right questions in the right manner to create fundamental statements, the elaboration on which can lead directly to concrete architectural products. Working on top of standardized and common approaches, the article introduces a language for the creation of architectural glimpse statements using the 5W1H maxim. Based on this language, a tool and guidelines are also provided to facilitate the usage of glimpses. Finally, the overall methodology is demonstrated in two case studies.
KW - 5W1H maxim
KW - Architectural description
KW - Five Ws
KW - Systems architecture
KW - View
KW - Viewpoint
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U2 - 10.3390/computers10100131
DO - 10.3390/computers10100131
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118141222
SN - 2073-431X
VL - 10
JO - Computers
JF - Computers
IS - 10
M1 - 131
ER -