Architectural Design Optimization—Results from a User Survey

Architectural Design for User Interfaces

This article discusses software architecture modelling for the design and development of interactive systems. Software architecture models should support properties and constraints prescribed by the software and cognitive psychology communities. From these observations, we derive a multi-agent framework applicable to the software design of interactive systems. An example shows how this general ...

Freedom through constraints: User-oriented architectural design

In this article we report on validated research for the construction of design constraints by automated interpretation of natural language input. We show how our approach of dynamic reconfigurations of parsed syntax trees using a number of production rules is used to formalize and transform natural language constructs into computable constraints that are applied to concrete building information...

From architectural requirements to architectural design

From User Requirements to Conceptual Design in Data Warehouse Design A Survey

Data Warehouse (DW) systems are used by decision makers to analyze the status and the development of an organization. DWs are based on large amounts of data integrated from heterogeneous sources into multidimensional schemata which are optimized for data access in a way that comes natural to human analysts. Generally speaking, a multidimensional schema is made up of facts, measures and dimensio...

Metaphor: a Creative aid in Architectural Design Process

In the developing world, skills in innovation and creative design have emerged as key attributes for graduating designers. Creativity is essential if we want to generate new solutions to the considerable and complex problems in architecture. Metaphor is frequently expressed as a key tool for enhancing creative design, yet little empirical research has been performed on how novice designers can ...