The following is an outline for a potential deeper discussion using the Architected Futures methodology to help refine the EATS tool suite toward an architecture and facility set which helps better address a selected issue set. If you would like to read more, tell me. Also, it would help to know:
- Special interest content using one or more references to subject matter categories used on this site.
- The context level you are interested in (conceptual, logical, technical, operational, etc.)
- The who/what/why/when/where/how variables you want exposed
For example: How would this work or be applied in a community (farming, city, resort?) facing rising water levels (as in Florida, or as in Maine?) driven by the rise in sea levels currently occurring due to climate change?
Note, the outline used below is arbitrary, the groups were my own invention when I originally conceived the idea of the post. Feel free to expand. This is usually the situation for most posts to discuss applications to specific problem sets. The "focus" of the current outline was derived from a discussion concerning the current state of the global civilization given such problems as climate change, population explosion, political discourse, terrorism, economics, etc. Fundamentally, there is a common architecture process to work through the problem set and discuss design alternatives and options.
The high level view of what's happening here is that someone is coming in with a problem specification, and we are adapting and tailoring the EATS tool suite to help arrive at a solution. It's not magic. There's a lot of work involved. If nothing else, sometimes your head might hurt. (Actually, that may happen a lot at first.) But what comes out is a control plan to create a maintainable solution that has a high likelihood of being achievable and functional for the duration expressed in your specifications. In this case (i.e., when dealing with global issues and concerns), duration is defaulted to "the indefinite future," as in, forever.