Strongly typed Architectural Models for Architecture-based Engineering: Current developments in their definition and description

It is the UTS A-Engineering group’s position that a strongly typed architectural model is the central and fundamental concept in the model-based development or alternatively the architecture-based engineering of computer based systems. Given a standard architectural model and representation, the architecture of systems can be discussed, drawn, reasoned about and classified. This paper presents the current UTS definitions and descriptions of system architecture. The definitions and concepts provided herein have been used as the foundation of several real-world model-based development, design, evolution and engineering projects