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CESAM is however not only a mathematically sound system modeling framework, specifically focused on complex integrated systems. It is also an architecting framework which means that it is intended to efficiently support all the design decisions that a systems architect...

Let us finally also stress on the fact that CESAM is also a business-oriented framework. As already pointed out, the CESAM framework was indeed used in many applications. In order to contribute to the quality increasing of systems projects, which...

Before going further, we need first to introduce a distinction that will be fundamental to understand better both what is systems architecting and how to read many classical engineering issues. It indeed appears that all engineered systems are always involving...

At this stage, it is now time to explain more precisely what “systems complexity” is and how it is connected with systems architecting. An element of answer is provided by the Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model. This cost model –...

Due to that complexity threshold as presented in section 1.2, which is – in our understanding – the root cause of most engineering issues observed in complex systems development (we here refer to Appendix B for more details), addressing systems...

To complete our discussion on systems architecting, let us now focus on the value brought by this discipline, which was in particular quite well analyzed by Honour in. The key point to understand is that the systems engineering approach in...

Systems architecting would of course not exist without the right key people, i.e. systems architects, to support the architectural process! The systems architect shall indeed fundamentally be the core responsible of the systems integration issues. He/she shall thus ensure that...

To conclude this chapter, we will briefly present the key characteristics of an (ideal) systems architect profile. Such profiles are indeed quite rare and always difficult to find as a matter of fact. Having some clues on that still poorly...

Before going further, we first need to introduce the notions of interface and of system environment. These elements of systemics will indeed be useful for presenting further the CESAM framework. We refer to Definition 0.1 and Definition 0.2 of Section...

We are now in position to introduce the three systems architectural visions which will be our first key systems architecting tool for analyzing any system.. The heterogeneity of the environment of a system requires to address it by means of...