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Balancing Genericity and Specificity

abstract The balance between generic and specific architecting methods is discussed. The output of the architect must be compact and hence generic, but this output is based on many specific details which have been taken into account.

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History

1.2 April 7, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • changed status to finished
1.1 January 19, 2004 Gerrit Muller
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1.0 January 6, 2004 Gerrit Muller
  • many small text improvements
  • updated the core quadrant figure
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0.1 November 4, 2003 Gerrit Muller
  • many small text improvements
  • added some text about "dynamic range"
  • added references to the figure showing generic diagrams that are based on many details
  • added Section "conclusion"
0 July 7, 2003 Gerrit Muller
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