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architecture

fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships and in the principles of its design and evolution

architecture Diagram

Clause: 3.1.3.1

Alternative preferred term: system architecture

Source: ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011, 3.2

History note: Introduced in ISO/TS 14812:2022

Specializations of architecture

Class Description
deployment architecture architecture that provides a vision of a specific deployment of a system within a geographic area
ITS deployment architecture deployment architecture for one or more ITS services
ITS planning architecture planning architecture for one or more ITS services
ITS reference architecture reference architecture for one or more ITS services
ITS-S reference architecture reference architecture for handling communications within a physical object as defined in ISO 21217
planning architecture architecture that provides a long-term vision of system elements that may be deployed and managed by different projects and/or entities within a geographic area
reference architecture architecture that provides a template solution for planning and deployment architectures

Relationships for architecture

Property Constraint
aggregates some element

References to architecture

Referencing Term Type of Reference
deployment architecture subClassOf
planning architecture subClassOf
reference architecture subClassOf

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