Constructing the Architect

Corpus Architect

Abstract. In the Corpus Architect project we are developing a system for creating text corpora, which will be easy to use even for non-technical users. The system creates corpora from two data sources – users’ own text documents and web pages. Users can upload their texts in various formats or ask the system for adding domain specific web texts into their corpora in an automated way. In the lat...

Ignored Architecture, Ignored Architect

Let's face it: Having to deal with a software architect can be, well, also funny – but not necessarily constructive. Any influential person is highly visible and evokes emotional reactions. Personality clashes can lead to mutual ignorance, and team members might deliberately choose to ignore the architect at least occasionally. Sometimes the architecture itself gives good reasons to ignore it. ...

The Changing Role of the Software Architect

BEING A GOOD software architect has never been easy. Changes in the software industry are making the job even more challenging. The key drivers are the rising role of software in systems of all kinds and their operation; more emphasis on reuse, agility, and testability during software development; and several quality elements increasingly affected by architectural choices. Most of these drivers...

Jacob Weidenmann, Pioneer Landscape Architect

A Mathematical Toolbox for the Software Architect

It is suggested that Category Theory provides the right level of mathematical abstraction to address languages for describing software architectures. Contrarily to most other formalisations of SA concepts, Category Theory does not promote any particular formalism for component and connector description but provides instead the very semantics of the concepts that are related to the gross modular...