Viewing a DSSA in Context: Problems versus Solutions

Software architectures are solution structures for problem families. Corollary to this definition is the observation that software architectures do not directly address the nature or simply the definition of the problems for which they are supposed to provide solutions. Yet, we construct software system because we have problems to model and solve. Hence, it would be beneficial to provide both problem characterizations and mappings to solution structures, if only to help match problems to solutions. In this position paper, we outline a domain oriented method for the defintion of problems and their mapping to architectures.