MACCIS 2.0 - An Architecture Description Framework for Technical Infostructures and Their Enterprise Environment

摘要

This paper presents the MACCIS 2.0 framework. MACCIS is an architecture description framework that defines architectural artefacts that are used to describe technical information infrastructures (infostructures) and their enterprise environment. The MACCIS framework has been developed for the Norwegian Defense Logistics Organization (NDLO) and its intended use is to describe the architectures of C2IS systems and their C2 environments. MACCIS 2.0 is a framework that is built on standards and experiences from more than five years of framework development and use. The framework contains two parts with different foci; MACCIS 2.0 Infostructure Edition (M2IE) is concerned with descriptions of technical infostructures, while MACCIS 2.0 Enterprise Edition (M2EE) is concerned with descriptions of the enterprise environment of the infostructures. In addition to identifying architectural artefacts, MACCIS also contains guidelines for how to produce and document the architectural artefacts. The UML modelling language with standard extensions mechanisms is used to define the notation for the architecture descriptions. This paper also summarizes some of the experiences that have been made using MACCIS in projects within the NDLO.