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The importance of architecture for software systems is widely accepted, but the role of architecture in the overall development process is not so clear. Presenting an architecture-centric process, Model-Driven Software Systems Development Using the Meta-Artifact Process makes the role of architecture clear. At its core, this book is about developing software systems and, more specifically, software code. It describes three major innovations for making software, which are combined with five widely used enabling technologies, to provide a complete, hypothesis-driven software development process known as Meta-Artifact Process (MAP). Having complete requirements is essential for making good software and supports the hypothesis-driven MAP.MAP offers properties, qualities, and capabilities that help stakeholders and developers understand and reason about a domain and target systems of interest. MAP, through the central role of the Meta-Artifact and incorporating the view that a computer program is a hypothesis about the requirements, offers new ways to look at systems and their development, even changing the roles of developers and stakeholders.Recommending agile methods wherever appropriate while supporting the OMG Essence standard and working within an overarching architecture, MAP presents ways to ensure that the requirements are complete and correct. It helps to identify likely points during development to form alternative hypotheses about them. Because MAP requires an underlying software development process, it can provide that clarity to existing processes in which the organization’s developers are already proficient.This book provides concrete examples from two broad but diverse areas—Accounting Information Systems in the commercial area and a military command and control system—to show the wide applicability of MAP in both commercial and defense domains.

The importance of architecture for software systems is widely accepted, but the role of architecture in the overall development process is not so clear. Presenting an architecture-centric process, Model-Driven Software Systems Development Using the Meta-Artifact Process makes the role of architecture clear. At its core, this book is about developing software systems and, more specifically, software code. It describes three major innovations for making software, which are combined with five widely used enabling technologies, to provide a complete, hypothesis-driven software development process known as Meta-Artifact Process (MAP). Having complete requirements is essential for making good software and supports the hypothesis-driven MAP.MAP offers properties, qualities, and capabilities that help stakeholders and developers understand and reason about a domain and target systems of interest. MAP, through the central role of the Meta-Artifact and incorporating the view that a computer program is a hypothesis about the requirements, offers new ways to look at systems and their development, even changing the roles of developers and stakeholders.Recommending agile methods wherever appropriate while supporting the OMG Essence standard and working within an overarching architecture, MAP presents ways to ensure that the requirements are complete and correct. It helps to identify likely points during development to form alternative hypotheses about them. Because MAP requires an underlying software development process, it can provide that clarity to existing processes in which the organization’s developers are already proficient.This book provides concrete examples from two broad but diverse areas—Accounting Information Systems in the commercial area and a military command and control system—to show the wide applicability of MAP in both commercial and defense domains.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN concerns us all for the way it bravely explores, celebrates, and bemoans being human in these difficult, crazy times. Whether writing about loss, love's yearning, worms, water, or the gifts and mysteries of nature, the speaker's sincerity, humor, and imaginative probing seduces the reader onward. In the end, you'll laugh, feel succor, and sometimes weep, but, in weeping, you're reminded of Rumi's "wound (being) the place where the light enters you" so, reading Wayne's lines, with a tear in your eye, you often feel like the rain in one of his poems "following the cracks to find its way home...." Dennis Camire, poet and author of Anthology of Awe & Wonder Deerbrook Editions]

Syndael is a fiery redheaded beauty, and one of the Nameless ... a mysterious group of valiant heroes working for the Wardens of Ashra. Syndael puts her very life on the line to serve and protect the people of her planet. Oprianal, the most dangerous narcotic known to the realm of men, is being distributed through the Lotus Tavern in Bristork by a lusty, vicious criminal named Jaques. The tavern is just part of the criminal enterprise known as the Shadow Claw run by the master assassin named Frost. Syndael must go undercover as a tavern maid to try and bring this Jaques to justice. The more Syndael learns about Jaques, the more she begins to suspect there may be something else ... something bigger and deadlier ... behind the Shadow Claw's evil scheming. What are they really up to?When another of her Nameless team, Adom, is discovered and killed by Jaques, he also begins to suspect that Syndael as well, is Nameless. Syndael is beaten, tortured and abused by Jaques in an effort to break her. She manages to hold out, but must resort to using Oprianal herself to control the pain Should Syndrael abandon her mission and save herself, or risk the possibility of a painful, brutal death at the hands of Jaques to see her mission through?Author Wayne O'Brien weaves a fantastic tale of lust, murder, heroism, and intrigue set in a wondrous world of his creation ... Ashra with its red sun rising in the West, its brilliant green sky, its Wizards, Warlocks and Dragons.