Date of Award
Winter 2011
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Modeling Simul & Visual Engineering
Committee Director
Andreas Tolk
Committee Member
Frederic D. McKenzie
Committee Member
Charles Keating
Committee Member
Thomas Pawlowski
Abstract
The objective of this dissertation study is to conduct a holistic investigation into the elements of executable architectures. Current research in the field of Executable Architectures has provided valuable solution-specific demonstrations and has also shown the value derived from such an endeavor. However, a common theory underlying their applications has been missing.
This dissertation develops and explores a method for holistically developing an Executable Architecture Specification (EAS), i.e., a meta-model containing both semantic and syntactic information, using a conceptual framework for guiding data coding, analysis, and validation. Utilization of this method resulted in the description of the elements of executable architecture in terms of a set of nine information interrogatives: an executable architecture information ontology. Once the detail-rich EAS was constructed with this ontology, it became possible to define the potential elements of executable architecture through an intermediate level meta-model. The intermediate level meta-model was further refined into an interrogative level meta-model using only the nine information interrogatives, at a very high level of abstraction.
DOI
10.25777/v5k3-0128
ISBN
9781267112620
Recommended Citation
Shuman, Edwin A..
"Understanding the Elements of Executable Architectures Through a Multi-Dimensional Analysis Framework"
(2011). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), dissertation, Modeling Simul & Visual Engineering, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/v5k3-0128
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/msve_etds/40