Architectural Design (PDF)

Chris A. Vissers was a full professor at the University of Twente (UT), the Netherlands, where he established and managed the Tele- Informatics and Open Systems group, responsible for research and teaching in distributed ICT systems. His personal interests are in architecture, in the formal approach to design and specification methodologies, and in industry and business applications. From 1992 to 2006 he organized and managed the Telematics Institute (TI) as its Scientific and General Director. He acted as the OSI- Reporteur on Formal Description Techniques, guiding the LOTOS (IS8807) and Estelle (IS9074) standards development groups.

Luís Ferreira Pires is Associate Professor at UT. His research interests include design methodologies for distributed systems, architecture of distributed systems, modelling and specification techniques, middleware platforms and telematics applications. More recently he has been working on the application of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and Semantic web technologies to the design of context-aware applications and services, and to (dynamic) service composition. He contributed to various national and international research projects, co-authored more than 150 research papers in international conferences, workshops and journals, and is currently Education Director of the "Business Information Technology" Education Programme of the University of Twente.

Dick A. C. Quartel is senior research consultant and team leader of the R&D department at BiZZdesign. In this capacity he supports, coordinates and contributes to the development of new and existing solutions in the areas of enterprise architecture, enterprise portfolio management, strategy implementation and business process management. He contributed to several national projects in these areas, with BiZZdesign often as partner or sponsor.

Marten J. van Sinderen is associate professor at UT. From 1997 to 2000 he was senior researcher at UT's Centre for

“Upon the completion of this book, readers will have a systematic way of modeling complex interactive systems as a collection of related services and protocols. An appendix is also provided with a set of exercises and solutions that can be used to test one’s understanding and mastery of the concepts. The book is a great resource for those interested in architectural design … .” (Computing Reviews, June, 2017)