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System architecture is one of the key concepts in designing engineering systems. It relates business strategy and socio-technical system development. System architecture is critical in designing engineering systems as it is a focal point where novel designs are discussed, often in the form of integrating new technologies into existing system architectures. A key aspect of addressing system architecture is identifying, modeling, and managing critical interfaces. Many studies underline that the success of a development project is based upon managing critical interfaces successfully. Several research domains have been actively contributing to supporting the system architecting phase, developing different system architecture modeling approaches, integrating critical interface modeling, and proposing different system architecture decision support methods and tools. The objective of this chapter is to give an overview of overarching objectives and difficulties in system architecture design and to discuss existing methods and tools both in the literature and in practice. Due to novel challenges in design, such as autonomous vehicles, discussions on new types of architectures have begun, and we provide an overview of existing challenges and potential new domains.

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Jankovic, M., Hein, A.M. (2023). Architecting Engineering Systems: Designing Critical Interfaces. In: Maier, A., Oehmen, J., Vermaas, P.E. (eds) Handbook of Engineering Systems Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46054-9_14-3

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