Vision

The overall vision is one of a multi-dimensional software development. Following such an approach, one dimension represents the application domain, e.g., flight guidance (FG).

Additional domains are represented by additional dimensions, e.g., High Assurance (HA), Fault tolerance (FT), Real-time (RT), Embedded, etc..

Domain knowledge in each dimension is represented by a catalog of patterns. Different experts may define the patterns in each domain, and each domain may have its own modeling notation.

Patterns associated with each dimension are applied to the application software. The selected patterns must be consistent with the overall system requirements and with each other. By providing a variety of solutions to the same problem (using patterns and subpatterns), we increase the likelihood that we can produce an overall consistent result.

To address issues related to path specific optimizations and minimize overall footprint, the application domain may also be decomposed into individual features and feature sets.

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