Acronyms

AADL
Architecture Analysis and Design Language

ACSPP
Architecture-centered software project planning

AD
Architecture documentation

ADD
Attribute-Driven Design

ADL
Architecture description language

ADR
Active design review

AOP
Aspect-oriented programming

AOPA
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

AOSD
Aspect-oriented software development

API
Application programming interface

ArchE
Architecture Expert

ARID
Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs

ASR
Architecturally significant requirement

ATAM
Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

ATIA
U.S. Army Training Information Architecture System

ATM
Asynchronous transfer mode

AV
All-view

BDUF
Big design up front

BPEL
Business Process Execution Language

BPMN
Business Process Modeling Notation

C&C
Component and connector

CCM
CORBA component model

CLR
Common Language Runtime

CM
Complexity

CONOPS
Concepts of Operations

CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COTS
Commercial off-the-shelf

DBMS
Database management system

DCM
Data collection module

DoD
U.S. Department of Defense

DoDAF
Department of Defense Architecture Framework

DSM
Dependency structure matrix

ECS
EOSDIS Core System

ERD
Entity-relationship diagram

FEAF
Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework

FOS
Flight Operations Segment

FTX
Fault-tolerant UNIX

HLA
High-Level Architecture

HTML
Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

IDL
Interface Definition Language (CORBA)

IEEE
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

INCOSE
International Council on Systems Engineering

IP
Internet Protocol

ISO
International Organization for Standardization

Java EE
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

JSON
JavaScript Object Notation

JSP
JavaServer Pages

JVM
Java Virtual Machine

MVC
Model-view-controller

OMG
Object Management Group

OSATE
Open-source AADL tool environment

OV
Operational view

OWL
Ontology Web language

RAID
Redundant array of independent disks

RMI
Remote Method Invocation

RUP
Rational Unified Process

SaaS
Software as a service

SAE
Society of Automotive Engineers

SARA
Software architecture review and assessment

SCM
Software configuration management

SDL
Specification and Description Language

SDPS
Science Data Processing Segment

SHARK
Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge

SLA
Service-level agreement

SOA
Service-oriented architecture

SV
Systems and services view

SysML
Systems Modeling Language

TCP
Transmission Control Protocol

TDDT
Training and Doctrine Development Tool

TLCD
Top-level context diagram

TOGAF
The Open Group Architecture Framework

TV
Technical standards view

UM
Uncertainty

UML
Unified Modeling Language

UTMC
Unit Training Management Configuration

WBS
Work breakdown structure

WSDL
Web Services Definition Language

XML
Extensible Markup Language