Rich Hilliard: Papers and Talks

This page provides a partial list of recent papers, talks and works-in-progress. It is out of date, but will improve with time. Send me a note if a link is broken, or if something is missing. At work on how best to use Google Scholar, Slideshare, ResearchGate. DBLP. Stay tuned.

On Architecture, Systems and Software

Architecture Modeling for Resource Margin Estimation with S. Srinivasan, R. Kegley, M. Gerhardt, C. Granger, J. Preston, S. Drager, M. Anderson, R. Rosa, and A. Charsagua, at High Confidence Software and Systems Conference, Annapolis, MD 13–17 Sept 2020.
Empirical Bounds of Multicore Cache Interference for Real-Time Schedulability Analysis with S. Srinivasan, R. Kegley, M. Gerhardt, J. Preston, C. Granger, S. Drager, M. Anderson, R. Rosa, A. Charsagua, N. Srinivasan and R. Ha, In IEEE/AIAA 38th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), September 2019. (Awarded best paper of session.)
Assessing migration of a 20-year-old system to a micro-service platform using ATAM with Pablo Cruz, Hernan Astudillo and Miguel Collado, In Proceedings of International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2019), Hamburg, Germany, March 2019.
Modeling Context with an Architecture Viewpoint with Adriatik Bedjeti, Patricia Lago, Grace Lewis and Remco de Boer. In Proceedings of International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2017), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017.
Trends in systems and software variability Guest editor introduction, with Rafael Capilla and Jan Bosch, Special Issue of IEEE Software, Trends in Systems and Software Variability, May/June 2015. preprint
Lessons from the fundamental unity of architecting In Software Engineering in the Systems Context, editors: Ivar Jacobson and Harold 'Bud' Lawson, 2015. preprint
What can BPM learn from Enterprise Architecture? with Mark von Rosing and Henrik von Scheel in The Complete Business Process Handbook (volume 2, Extended Business Process Management)
Towards an Improved Stakeholder Management for Software Reference Architectures with Samuil Angelov. European Conference on Software Architecture, Vienna, 2014 pdf
Architecting in Networked Organizations with Damian Andrew Tamburri, Patricia Lago and Christoph Dorn. Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2014), Sydney. preprint See also: NOVA
Surveying the Twin Peaks Keynote for 2nd International Workshop on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture, at ICSE, 21 May 2013, San Francisco.
Work in progress; comments appreciated. slides
In search of the Higgs, or What’s wrong with SEMAT? Work in progress; comments appreciated. slides

Several of the above items are part of an ongoing investigation into concerns in architecture and engineering. I hope to elaborate upon these ideas in full papers sometime soon.

The role of architecture frameworks: Lessons learned from ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Submission to NATO IST-115 Symposium on Architecture Definition & Evaluation, May 2013, Toulouse. extended abstract
Guest editors’ Introduction, Special issue: selected papers from the 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2011) with Patricia Lago. Journal of Systems and Software, 85(9), September 2012.
Guest editors’ Introduction, Special issue: Framing Stakeholders’ Concerns with Patricia Lago and Paris Avgeriou. IEEE Software, November/December 2010. preprint
Forces on Architecture Decisions with Uwe van Heesch and Paris Avgeriou. Joint 10th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture & 6th European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA/ECSA 2012). preprint, slides
On the Composition and Reuse of Viewpoints across Architecture Frameworks with Ivano Malavolta, Henry Muccini and Patrizio Pelliccione. Joint 10th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture & 6th European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA/ECSA 2012). preprint, slides
A documentation framework for architecture decisions with Uwe van Heesch and Paris Avgeriou. The Journal of Systems & Software, 85(4), April 2012. preprint
Reviewing an architecture document chapter in Clements et al., Documenting Software Architectures: views and beyond, (2nd edition), 2011.
ISO/IEC 42010 neé IEEE Std 1471 chapter in Clements et al., Documenting Software Architectures: views and beyond, (2nd edition), 2011.
On representing variation 1st International Workshop on Variability in Software Product Line Architectures, at 4th European Conference on Software Architecture, 2010.
Work in progress. annotated version
Realizing architecture frameworks through megamodelling techniques with Ivano Malavolta, Henry Muccini and Patrizio Pelliccione. Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium, 2010. preprint
Architecture description in-the-large position paper for Workshop on Exploring Enterprise, System of Systems, System, and Software Architecture at WICSA/ECSA 2009. preprint
Every architecture description needs a framework with David Emery. WICSA/ECSA 2009. preprint
Knowledge mechanisms in IEEE 1471 & ISO/IEC 42010 invited talk for SHARK 2008, at ICSE, Vancouver, May 2009. slides
A Structured Approach for Reviewing Architecture Documentation with Robert L. Nord, Paul C. Clements and David Emery.
CMU/SEI-2009-TN-030
A Trust Viewpoint work-in-progress to define an architecture viewpoint for capturing trust and security concerns in an architecture description.
Comments appreciated. draft
Characterizing relations between architectural views with Nelis Boucké, Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet and Alexander Helleboogh. Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2008), Springer, LNCS, volume 5292. preprint
Updating IEEE 1471: Architecture frameworks and other topics with David Emery. Proceedings of the Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008). preprint, slides
Aspects in architectural description with Paul Clements, David Emery and Philippe Kruchten. Summary of March 2007 workshop at AOSD, in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, volume 32. preprint
Using Aspects in Architectural Description Early Aspects @ AOSD. Springer, LNCS 4765. preprint, slides
ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 (previously IEEE Std 1471) Bibliography Updated occasionally. pdf
IEEE 1471 at age 5 pdf
Understanding perspectives response to Woods, Emmerich and Rozanski’s (unpublished) “Using architectural perspectives” in light of the conceptual framework of IEEE Std 1471. pdf
ANSI/IEEE 1471 and Systems Engineering with Mark Maier and David Emery. Systems Engineering: the Journal of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), 7(3) 2004. preprint
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Inference: architectural views and their interfaces position paper in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Living with Inconsistency. preprint
Introducing IEEE 1471 with Mark Maier and David Emery. IEEE Computer, April 2001.
Viewpoint modeling position paper in Proceedings of the 1st ICSE Workshop on Describing Software Architecture with UML. preprint
Three Models for the Description of Architectural Knowledge: Viewpoints, Styles, and Patterns (Withdrawn — after disappointing a couple folks who requested it: I'm not happy with current draft. Someday this may reappear.)
IEEE Std 1471 and Beyond position paper for SEI’s Workshop on Software Architecture Representation, 16-17 January 2001. preprint
Views as modules position paper for the Fourth International Software Architecture Workshop (ISAW-4), 4 and 5 June 2000, Limerick, Ireland. preprint
Impact Assessment of IEEE 1471 on The Open Group Architecture Framework At the request of John Spencer, this note was prepared to assess the expected im-pact of adopting IEEE 1471, Recommended Practice on Architectural Description on The Open Group’s Architecture Framework (TOGAF). 30 March 2000. pdf
Building blocks for extensibility in the UML response to Object Management Group’s Request for Information for Unified Modeling Language 2.0. Available from OMG as: ad/99-12-12 (see also: ad/99-12-13, ad/99-12-14)
Patterns of Practical Architecting position paper for OOPSLA’99 Workshop on Patterns in Software Architecture: The Development Process, 2 November 1999. preprint
Aspects, Concerns, Views, ... position paper for OOPSLA’99 Workshop on Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns in Object-oriented Systems, 1 November 1999. preprint
Using the UML for architectural description Proceedings of «UML»’99 The Unified Modeling Language, Second International Conference, Springer, LNCS volume 1723. preprint, slides
Views and viewpoints in software systems architecture position paper from the First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, San Antonio, February 1999. extended version
Expressiveness in Architecture Description Languages with Tim Rice. Proceedings of the 3rd International Software Architecture Workshop, ACM Press, Orlando Florida, 1-2 November 1998. preprint
Architecture Description Framework (ADF) Workbook with Vivian E. Sovinsky. The MITRE Corporation, 1997.
“C4ISR Architectures” and “Software Architectures” — Compared Invited talk comparing DOD’s C4ISR Architecture Framework with industry and academic approaches to software architecture. Presented 25 March 1997, at Software Engineering Institute, Washington as part of the PLIAT Workshop on Architecture Standards in Product Line Acquisition. slides
Operational Architectures (the very idea!) November 1997 presentation for an EFX architecture interchange meeting, on the topic of operational architectures.
The Architect’s Job briefing for US Air Force, June 1997 (remixed 2006). slides
Comments on C4ISR Architecture Framework with Tim Rice. Originally, MITRE Corporation memo D510-M-013, dated 5 June 1997. The C4ISR Architecture Framework was a proposed approach to documenting architectures for the DoD. This memo provides detailed comments on version 1.0 of the framework. Note: Version 2.0 of the C4ISR Architecture Framework is now available and in use by the DOD. It hasn’t fixed any of the problems cited in this memo. pdf
MITRE’s Architecture Quality Assessment with M. Kurland and S. Litvintchouk. Paper at the 1997 MITRE Software Engineering and Economics Conference, April 2-3, 1997. pdf
Architecture Description Framework overview briefing of the Architecture Description Framework (ADF) MSR.
Toward a Recommended Practice for Architectural Description with Walter J. Ellis, Peter T. Poon, David Rayford, Thomas F. Saunders, Basil Sherlund and Ronald L. Wade. Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 21-25, 1996. pdf
Architecture Quality Assessment (version 2.0) with Michael J. Kurland, Steven D. Litvintchouk, Timothy B. Rice and Stephen C. Schwarm. This version was developed while at The MITRE Corporation, and is dated August 7, 1996. For the most recent version, contact Rich Hilliard. pdf
Representing Software Systems Architectures or, components, connections and (why not?) first-class constraints and views 2nd International Workshop on the Architecture of Software Systems (ISAW-2), October 15-16, 1996, San Francisco. Joint Proceedings of the SIGSOFT ’96 Workshops, ACM Press
Patterns : Design :: Blueprints : Architecture with David Emery, 1996
Experiences Applying a Practical Architectural Method with David Emery and Tim Rice. Reliable Software Technologies — Ada Europe’96, Springer, LNCS, volume 1088. preprint
Architectural View Selection ESC Second Architecture Technical Interchange Meeting, Gunter AFB 5 December 1995
The Architectural Metaphor as a Foundation for Systems Engineering with Steve Schwarm and Tim Rice. Proceedings of Sixth Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering. preprint
Comments on Kogut and Clements (SEI), Features of Architecture Representation Languages
RCAS Final Assessment with J. R. Knisley and R. A. Ringdahl, 1995. Order from MITRE Library
Dimensions of Architectural Thinking
Software Architectures as They Relate to Software Maintenance with C. Byrnes, R. Baldwin, and T. Rice. Proceedings of the MITRE Washington Conference on Software Maintenance
The SBIS Architecture Method with Tim Rice. ESC Technical Interchange Meeting on Software Architectures, June 14-15, 1995.
“Architecture,” methods and open issues with David Emery. First International Workshop on Architectures of Software Systems (ISAW-1), Seattle, WA, April 24-25 1995.
The notion of ‘architecture’ in model-based software engineering Workshop on Domain-Specific Architectures, Hidden Valley, PA, July 1990.

Other Writings

Comments on USPTO interim guidance, post-Bilski v. Kappos, September 2010. pdf
Meta-level design papers
Linguistics papers: There are a couple of papers from my MIT linguistics days perhaps worth recovering on thematic relations (before theta theory) and articlelessness.
Rich’s reflection bibliography (very old).