Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures

• Ontology defining the key concepts of system architecture engineering and their relationships
• Metamodel defining the foundational abstract supertypes of method components for engineering system architectures including architectural:
• * Work products including architectures and architectural representations such as models and documents
• * Work units including activities, tasks, and techniques for producing the work products
• * Producers including system architects, architecture teams, and architecture tools that perform the work units to produce the work products
• Repository of free, open-source, reusable method components for creating situation-specific system architecture engineering methods
• Metamethod for creating situation-specific system architecture engineering methods by selecting appropriate method components from the repository, tailoring them as appropriate, and integrating them to form the new architecture engineering method