Booch lectures and Architecture of Software

From lectures of Grady Booch at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/kits/index.html

Building a information system as well as building a house, a structure of complexity as social, or even universe.

You can write a song without any note,  rhythm. All form a simple structure.

Things and all their relationship between things make what we see today.

Some philosophy here

Now begin my summary from his lectures:

Current trends in software architecture

web-centric systems going back

for many web systems, dynamic frameworks such as what we find in Ajax or Java Server Faces or Ruby on Rails. As we project forward we can see the beginnings of a new kind of web architecture such as surrounding the semantic web.

software engineering involves the resolution of a variety of forces. There are business forces, environmental forces, development forces, operational forces, and even legal and ethical forces.

building a system with a balanced distribution responsibility

there's a very common practice I find among those organizations that are successful and notably absent from those who are not successful. And it's simply this -- those hyper-productive organizations tend to grow a systems architecture through the incremental and iterative release of executables.

what is an architecture?

Software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other, and the environment and the principles governing its design and evolution.

Why do we care about software architecture?

A process that is centered around growing an architecture is one that is risk confrontive, it's one that focuses upon simplicity and it's one that deals with building systems that are resilient to change. In short, in software engineering, an activity that focuses around the growing of an architecture is very much one that is a fundamental engineering process.

software architecture is "they architect software".

Review the role of the architect

Architecture can be represented in a single blueprint ?? UML, Merise,... ? there are multiple stakeholders with different views and different concerns and therefore architects build models to reason about these architectural decisions.
What is model ? A model is a simplification of reality created in order to better understand the system being created and therefor a model is a semantically closed abstraction of the system. Each model takes a look at a system from a particular view, and we define view as a representation of a whole system from the perspective of a related set of concerns.
Why software contain complexity ? complex systems is that we know we need multiple views, but It's also the case that not all systems require all views. 
Booch's example "If I have a simple system with a single process I can ignore process issues." or "If I have a data intensive system I'll need to look at data schemes more intensely."
Can we classify all view of system ? yes, "logical process, implementation, deployment, and use-case views."
In Merise, the methodology for analyzing information sytem at enterprise level, the another approach from French, " Conceptual view, logic/organizational view and physical view." The conceptual communication view, we can see it has same ideas with use case view in Booch's approach.
With Booch, 
logical view + process view = conceptual view 
logical view = vocabulary of the problem space and solution space, decomposition, interfaces, the collaborations of logic + process = system's use cases
logic "==>" functionality, key abstractions, mechanisms, separation of concerns, distribution of responsibilities
process view = threads + processes that form the system's concurrency + synchronization mechanisms
process "==>"  performance + scalability, + throughput
implementation + deployment  = the physical aspects of a system.
implementation "==>" configuration management
deployment is "platform" , "==>" distribution + communication + and provisioning
use-case  =  logic + process + implementation + deployment 
Why do we care about this representation? We model our architectures from multiple views in order to codify our design decisions, in order to reason about those decisions, and finally and most importantly, to transform those decisions into executable code.
Booch's conclusion is "Architectures are important. They are essential to building quality systems."
For my career as software architecture "Software architecture is an important activity among the stakeholders of building economically interesting systems, and as such the profession of architecting in software is one that is growing into an identifiable set of activities."
What about working as information architecture in IT industry ??
Maybe in next post