SysDesc ADF Overview

The System Description Architecture Description Framework is used to create a System Description for a system-of-interest. The System Description provides a number of viewpoints of a system-of-interest. The viewpoints shown in the following diagram are used to create a view of a system-of-interest:

The System Description includes the following sections representing views of the system-of-interest. The Viewpoint provides the instructions to create the view (See the associated link in the list below or click the link in the header of a section of the System Description):

• System Name and Class
• System Purpose
• System Properties
• System Stakeholders and their concerns
• System Environment (Context)
• System Structure (Pattern of Organization)
• System Behavior (Structural Changes)
• References

Other sections can include:

• Introduction / Overview of the system-of-interest

• Correspondences

• Rationalle

Here is a link to the template and PDF

PDF:: Architecture Description: SD Template, Version 0.0, 28-June-2023

Here are some examples of System Descriptions:

• PDF: System Description: Enterprise as a System of Systems (SoS), Version 0.17, 24-June-2023

• PDF: System Description: System (Abstract), Version 0.30, 27-December-2023 (working draft)

• PDF:: System Description: Social System, Version 0.10, 03-November-2020

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