System Architecture & Design Methodologies
My Pages:
Tools for
Designing Robust Embedded Systems
and an associated
links page
Thoughts on
System Architecture Research & Education
(.pdf brief essay)
Lecture notes on my
system architecture research trajectory
, May 8, 2000 talk at MIT (2.3 MB .pdf file)
A Widely Deployable Web-based Network Simulation Framework using CORBA IDL-based APIs
, WSC '99
Overview:
Design Abstraction
and Design for Change
A Taxonomy of
Decomposition Strategies
Based on Structures, Behaviors, and Goals
Towards
Execution Models
of Distributed Systems: A Case Study of Elevator Design
Structured Functional Modeling in SES/workbench
, April 1994. [presentation only]
Essay:
Models
for Distributed Embedded System Design
M.S.
Thesis
: Arjun Cholkar,
A Web-based Distributed Network Simulation Framework using CORBA IDL-based APIs
, 1999
Automated Highway Systems:
Orthogonal Capability Building Blocks
for Flexible AHS Deployment, 1998
Functional Evolution of an Automated Highway System for Incremental Deployment
, 1998
Pointers:
Engineering Design
web resource directory
CMU Engineering Design
Research Center
MIT Engineering Design
Research Laboratory
NSF System Workshop -- Final Report
INCOSE
system engineering home page
The IEEE-CS TC-RTS
Real Time Systems
Home Page
The IEEE TSC on Engineering
Complex Computer Systems
SEI System Engineering
Capability Maturity Model
Comp.simulation software archive
(actually an archive of descriptions, not of simulation software itself)
Simulation
page of Paul Fishwick (including free Simulation software)
Design for Competitive Advantage Home Page
Towards
provably correct
hardware/software codesign.
Principia Cybernetica
Web
Design Automation
Conference
Design Theory
and Methodology Conference
Rocky Mountain Institute
-- trying to take a systems approach to big problems; reducing resource consumption
Books:
On-line handbook for
Management of Large and Complex technical systems
(includes system engineering methods)
Systems Architecting:
creating and building complex systems by Eberhardt Rechtin;
and Scott Hyer's summarizing
notes
.
News Groups:
comp.risks
(a must-read!) and its
archive
comp.simulation
sci.systems
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