CS 586: Software Systems Architectures

Objectives

• Understand the fundamental concepts of architectural software design and analysis.
• Demonstrate the knowledge of the existing software system architectures.
• Demonstrate the knowledge of developing software system architectures in a software design project.
• Demonstrate the knowledge of analyzing software system architectures.
• Demonstrate the knowledge of software architecture patterns and their application.

Prerequisites

• CS 487.

Syllabus

• Introduction to Software Architectures
• Modular design; Object-Oriented design
• Design patterns; Object-Oriented design patterns
• Pattern-oriented software architectures
• Interactive Systems architecture
• Layered architecture
• Pipes and Filters architecture
• Model Driven Architecture
• Repository architecture
• Event-based architecture
• Adaptable systems architecture
• Distributed systems architecture
• Client-server architecture
• Fault-tolerant architecture
• Process control systems architecture
• Domain-specific architectures; Reference architecture

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