OMG ArchiMate 2.0 Specification. IEEE 1471. IEEE 1471 is a superseded IEEE Standard for describing the architecture of a "software-intensive system", also known as software architecture. In 2011 it was superseded by ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011, Systems and software engineering — Architecture description. Overview[edit] IEEE 1471 is the short name for a standard formally known as ANSI/IEEE 1471-2000, Recommended Practice for Architecture Description of Software-Intensive Systems. Within Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) parlance, this is a "recommended practice", the least normative of its standards.
In 2007 this standard was adopted by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 as ISO/IEC 42010:2007, Systems and Software Engineering -- Recommended practice for architectural description of software-intensive systems.[1] It has long been recognized[by whom?] IEEE 1471's contributions can be summarised as follows (in this list, items in italics are terms defined by and used in the standard): History[edit] Purpose[edit] Terminology[edit] Use ArchiMate to model enterprise architecture. EA Wiki. ISO/IEC 42010. ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Systems and software engineering — Architecture description is an international standard for architecture descriptions of systems and software. Overview[edit] ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 defines requirements on the description of system, software and enterprise architectures. It aims to standardise the practice of architecture description by defining standard terms, presenting a conceptual foundation for expressing, communicating and reviewing architectures and specifying requirements that apply to architecture descriptions, architecture frameworks and architecture description languages.
Following its predecessor, IEEE Std 1471, the standard makes a strict distinction between Architectures and Architecture Descriptions. The description of ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 in this article is based upon the standard published in 2011.[1] Terminology[edit] ISO/IEC 42010 defines a number of terms: Conceptual Foundations[edit] The ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 conceptual model utilizes the following concepts:
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