Process and Model Transformations on Different Levels

This chapter consists of three parts. The first is on lifecycle processes and their relation to the working area graph model WAM. The second gives principal remarks on abstraction levels of processes, their products as partial results, and their integration to the overall configuration. The third part discusses, what development and changes mean on that configuration, and why transformations between results of different working areas are specifically important. In this chapter, we discuss those transformations, where the architecture of the system to be developed or changed is involved. Altogether, the purpose of this chapter is the preparation for the following chapters 11 to 14. Finally, we shortly characterize these transitions/ transformations, which are discussed in these chapters.