The process of architecting for software/system engineering

International Journal of System of Systems Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-23

  Chigani, Amine ^a   Balci, Osman ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecting process; Network centric system architecting; Process area; Software architecting; Software architecture; Software based system architecting; System architecting; System of systems architecting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860284063     PISSN: 17480671     EISSN: 1748068X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSE.2012.046533     Document Type: Article

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