Developing Large-Scale Systems with the Rational Unified Process
by Maria Ericsson. All Rights Reserved.
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Abstract
There is a considerable increase in complexity when developing large-scale
systems. Not only does it require that you are capable of comprehending a more
complex set of artifacts, you are also introducing overhead since you need to
manage a larger set of resources. This paper describes an architectural pattern
that is used to help control the added complexity overhead. The architectural
pattern is referred to as a system
of interconnected systems.
This paper introduces an architectural pattern for systems of interconnected
systems. This construct allows recursion not only within one model, it considers
each subsystem a system in its own right and the recursion is between all the
artifacts sets of each of the systems. The introduced architecture is used for
systems that are implemented by several communicating systems. Each involved
system is described by its own set of models, separate from other systems'
models.
The examples given in this paper illustrate that the architecture for modeling systems of
interconnected systems is useful in many different application areas. In fact,
you may use the suggested architecture for any system where it 's possible to
view the different parts as systems of their own.
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