Reference Architectures for Critical Domains: Industrial Uses and Impacts

This book provides a reference architecture as a key blueprint to develop and evolve critical software-intensive systems, with a focus on state-of-the-art research and successful industrial cases. It covers key application domains such as defense, health, automotive, avionics, and Industry 4.0, highlighting relevant reference architectures, experience, lessons learned, benefits, drawbacks, and future directions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 05 February 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book presents reference architecture as a critical blueprint for developing and evolving software-intensive systems, emphasizing both the state-of-the-art in research and successful industrial cases. After outlining the theoretical foundations of reference architecture and providing an overview of various proposed reference architectures over the years, the book delves into a set of critical application domains, including defense, health, automotive, avionics, and Industry 4.0. It highlights the most relevant reference architectures that have impacted these domains, the experience and lessons learned, insights gained, benefits and drawbacks, and factors that make these architectures sustainable. The book concludes with the most relevant directions for future advances in reference architectures.

This book is valuable for researchers and advanced professionals in computing and engineering, as well as in critical application domains that increasingly require interconnected, large, and complex software-intensive systems. It provides a comprehensive understanding of reference architecture and its applications, enabling readers to design and implement sustainable and effective software-intensive systems that meet the evolving needs of industries.

Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031169564
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023