Introduction

Introduction The previous two chapters explored the concepts of model views, model integration, and progression along parallel paths. This chapter brings together these threads by presenting examples of integrated modeling methodologies. Part III concludes in the next chapter where we review the architecture community’s standards for architecture description. The distinction between this chapter and the next is twofold. First, in this chapter we study modeling methods without concern for how their elements combine in formal documents. The focus is on integrated, multiview modeling methods as tools for architecting, not as descriptors within a document. Second, this chapter is concerned with methods from the literature whether or not they are formally standardized. De facto standardization or standardization in the scientic literature is sufcient in this chapter. The next chapter is concerned with how models are brought together in formalized architecture description documents and with community efforts at formal standardization. The methodologies in this chapter are further divided by domain specicity, with the rst models more nearly domain independent and later models more domain specic.