ICES-INCOSE: Architecting Embedded Systems

On Thursday 4th November 2010 at KTH, ICES and INCOSE Sweden brought together knowledgeable architects to answer the question “What makes a good architecture?”

Challenging Questions

The driving questions behind this seminar included:

* What makes a good architecture?
* How is complexity managed?
* Which technologies drive architecture development?
* ... which views, which metrics, which methods? * How do you verify an architecture?
* How do you communicate it?
* and how are architecture design decisions and rationales captured?

Ideas were exchanged on these issues across domains, and across the industry/academia border.

A broad spectrum of industry was represented by:
~ Dietmar Fiedler (Ericsson) - "Long living architecture in mobile networks."
~ Mats Ekman (Saab Aerospace) - “Architectural challenges in Aerospace systems”
~ Viacheslav Izosimov (EISbySemcon) - "Architectural Paradigms in Design of Embedded Systems: Optimization Issues and Trade-Offs"
~ Staffan Persson (Scania) - "Lean Architecting"
~ Ulrik Eklund (VolvoCar)- "Architecting Automotive Software: Industrial Practice"

with Martin Törngren (KTH) and Jörgen Hansson (Chalmers) offering the researcher's perspective, System Architecting toward Virtual Integration.

Thought Provoking Panel Discussion

Speakers presentations and a post-event summary by ICES PhD students Magnus Persson and Sagar Behere are available in the right hand column!

(Chalmers talk to follow)

ICES Director Martin Törngren and Erik Herzog from INCOSE Sweden discussing future possibilities