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

Automated Highway Systems:

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 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:

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