Technical Committee on Industrial Agents

Sub-Committees : ICSA

Sub-Committee - Intelligent Components and Systems Architecture

Mission and Focus:
- Understanding "Architecture" as an abstract model that provides fundamental guidelines for developing applications, this subcommittee will address among others the following research issues:
  - The Description of the Architecture utilizing: ADLs, Views, Scenarios, or hybrid approaches
  - Engineering Methodologies for Architecture Development and Deployment
  Prior work focused the attention on functional aspects; however the qualitative attributes built into the architectures should be research as well such as: Integrability, Performance, Reusability, Modifiability, Scalability, and Interchangeability.
  The looser approach for defining an Architecture is to prove the definition for the Element Types and the Interactions. Further refinement from here involved the mapping of the system functionally to the architectural elements, the instances of the architecture elements, etc. Therefore, these will be also points of interest for this subcommittee in cooperation with the other relevant subcommittees.