Research in Architecture-Based Engineering is based on the premise that a sound architecture results in a sound system. An organisations CIO, System Manager, Architect or Operator is able to purchase; evolve or design complex IT environments by a process of discovering, populating, evaluating, visualising, and optimising their system architecture.

The mission of the Architecture-based Engineering (A-Engineering) Research Program is to research, develop and commercialise methodologies and tools to allow organisations to cost-effectively;

purchase new complex systems

evolve existing systems, or,

develop new systems entirely.

The methodologies and toolsets in the UTS Architecture-based Engineering Research Program are being researched, developed, tested and commercialised in 3 related projects.

This project encapsulates the overall framework/strategy for the research program, which is to develop a methodology that raises complex system design to engineering best-practice through optimisation and refinement built upon architectural modelling.

In this project the two disciplines of Systems Architecture and Telecommunications Engineering are brought together, with Alcatel Australia Ltd's partnership, to tackle the most significant problem facing the telecommunications industry today, that of manageing New-Generation Networks.

This project is a research, development and commercialisation vehicle with Avolution Pty Ltd (a UTS spin-off company being incubated by ITem3 Pty Ltd) that hopes to capitalise on over 7 years of architecture-based engineering of complex systems work between UTS and industry by developing a practical tool that will allow organisations to manage, build, design, evaluate and visualise complex systems.