Views and Beyond (2nd Edition), Clements et al, AddisonWesley, 2010:
- The set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both. how the elements relate to each other.
(2nd edition), Bass, Clements, Kazman; AddisonWesley 2003:
- This means that architecture specifically omits certain information about elements that does not pertain to their interaction.