Abstract
In this chapter we discuss systems as we intuitively know and understand them. The objective is to identify common characteristics that can be used in a methodology for designing distributed systems. To achieve this, such characteristics must be essential, structural and precisely definable. This allows us to formalise them into what we call basic architectural design concepts. This formalisation is done in the following chapters. In this chapter we also justify the need for a systematic approach to the design of distributed systems.
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Level Design Abstraction Level Internal Perspective Decomposition Level Design Step
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