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Axioms for Modern Enterprise Architecture

September 16, 2011 by Alan Hakimi

Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise architecture.   As I was dwelling on this, there was a healthy discussion on what a principle should be and how should they be described, etc.&nbs…

Categories Architecture, axioms, complex adaptive systems, Enterprise Architecture, enterprise as a system, principles, Systems Thinking

Axioms for Modern Enterprise Architecture

September 16, 2011 by Alan Hakimi

Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise architecture.   As I was dwelling on this, there was a healthy discussion on what a principle should be and how should they be described, etc.&nbs…

Categories Architecture, axioms, complex adaptive systems, Enterprise Architecture, enterprise as a system, principles, Systems Thinking

Architecture Considerations around Fabric Computing

March 1, 2011 by Alan Hakimi

Architecture Considerations around Fabric Computing
The fabric concept has been around since 1998, and computing fabrics using commodity hardware and software are now starting to come into fruition.  The fabric system provides a set of interc…

Categories Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud services, complex adaptive systems, discpline, fabric, freedom, graph theory Tags behavior, structure

Architecture Considerations around Fabric Computing

February 28, 2011 by Alan Hakimi

Architecture Considerations around Fabric Computing
The fabric concept has been around since 1998, and computing fabrics using commodity hardware and software are now starting to come into fruition.  The fabric system provides a set of interc…

Categories Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud services, complex adaptive systems, discpline, fabric, freedom, graph theory Tags behavior, structure

Architecting for Fitness using Complex Adaptive Systems

September 14, 2010 by Alan Hakimi

Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.   
One of the characteristics of a CAS …

Categories Architecture, complex adaptive systems, design, fitness, healthy Tags emergence

Architecting for Fitness using Complex Adaptive Systems

September 14, 2010 by Alan Hakimi

Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.   
One of the characteristics of a CAS …

Categories Architecture, complex adaptive systems, design, fitness, healthy Tags emergence

The New World of Emergent Architecture and Complex Adaptive Systems

August 10, 2010 by Alan Hakimi

Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium.   We designed for service levels, deployed security countermeasures, and built complicated solutions to meet 100% of our requireme…

Categories Architecture, chaos, complex adaptive systems, qualities Tags emergence

The New World of Emergent Architecture and Complex Adaptive Systems

August 10, 2010 by Alan Hakimi

Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium.   We designed for service levels, deployed security countermeasures, and built complicated solutions to meet 100% of our requireme…

Categories Architecture, chaos, complex adaptive systems, qualities Tags emergence
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