Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Architecture-Level Development

Bottom-Up Synthesis of Engineering Systems, enhanced with Component Reuse Figure 1 shows elements of a top-down/breadth first development (decomposition) followed by a bottom-up implemenation procedure (composition). In the latter half, a key design decision is: should we custom build new components or buy/reuse them. Figure 1. Elements of Top-down and Bottom-Up Development coupled with Component Reuse We envision a library (XML database) of object-specification descriptions.

Section 1-2: June, 2003.