OPTIMIZING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR ADAPTABILITY
DS 70: Proceedings of DESIGN 2012, the 12th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2012
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Engel ,A.; Reich, Y.; Browning, T. R.; Schmidt, D. M.
Section: Systems engineering and design
Page(s): 1677-1688
Abstract
System architecture decisions such as the assignment of components to modules can have a large impact on the system's adaptability. We broaden systems architecting theory by considering components’ option values and interface costs when making the as
Keywords: systems architecting, modularity, transaction costs, financial options, architecture options, DSM, optimization, adaptability, TRIZ