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Advanced System Architecture

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Instructors: Dr. Daniel E. Whitney, Prof. Joel Moses, Dr. Christopher L. Magee
Term: Spring 2006
Level: Graduate
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Lecture 1: Introduction and Objectives - What we want to understand better and why it matters

Lecture 2: Basic foundations for course emphasizing ways of thinking and biases

Lecture 3: Have students begin to uncover their own biases and assumptions important in systems architecture

Lecture 4: Introduction to Graphs, Networks, Hierarchies and DSM’s

Lecture 5: Discussion and identification of focus systems whose architectures we will study all semester Project Definition

Lecture 6: Network Observational Methods and Quantitative Metrics I: Simple Concepts

Lecture 7: Constraints I

Lecture 8: Canonical structures and their organizational implications

Lecture 9: Complexity and Flexibility

Lecture 10: Network Observational Methods

Lecture 11: Network Observational Methods

Lecture 12: Network Models

Lecture 13: Student Presentations on Project Status

Lecture 14: Affiliation Networks, Navigation and Search on Networks

Lecture 15: Constraints II and Scaling and Allometry

Lecture 16: Enterprise Architectures

Lecture 17: Modeling Enterprise Architectures Constraints - Social, Physical, Political, Time-based - and their effect on structure and behavior

Lecture 18: Technical and some sociological networks compared in greater depth

Lecture 19: Student reports on their focus architectures

Lecture 20: Second generation models of technological systems

Lecture 21: Systematics in other fields

Lecture 22: Standards and the practice of complex system architecture, design and standards

Lecture 25: Overall discussion of presentation and further elaboration of theory and architecture

Lecture 26: Final day of class-course wrap-up and discussion of quality of emerging models and theoretical needs