L’entrelacs architectural

Architectural Synthesis: Integrating Multiple Architectural Perspectives

There are many tools and techniques available to understand and analyze a system at the architectural level. Each of these may provide its own perspective of the key architectural elements of the system. We introduce the process of architectural synthesis to deal with the problem of integrating these different architectural perspectives. We emphasize the utility of the synthesis process in supp...

From architectural requirements to architectural design

Distilling Software Architectural Primitives from Architectural Styles

Architectural styles codify commonly used idioms in system structures, organizations, and interactions. Existing classifications of architectural styles provide empirical guidelines for style selection, but fail to systematically characterize styles or reveal their foundations. Moreover, the mapping between architectural styles and their implementations is generally poorly understood. This pape...

Architectural Acoustics: General Topics in Architectural Acoustics

The Audio Arts and Acoustics department at Columbia College in Chicago acquired a new building in 2003. The facility, a former bank, contained an old steel and concrete vault that was converted to a reverberation chamber. The acoustic properties of the space, including reverberation time, modal density, and early reflection maps were analyzed and compared to a computer model. Reflectograms were...

Modeling Architectural Patterns' Behavior Using Architectural Primitives

Architectural patterns have an impact on both the structure and the behavior of a system at the architecture design level. However, it is challenging to model patterns’ behavior in a systematic way because modeling languages do not provide the appropriate abstractions and because each pattern addresses a whole solution space comprised of potentially infinite solution variants. In this paper, we...