Research Centres and Laboratories – Part 2. Architectural Design Principles

Safe Architectural Design Principles

This report discusses architectures for safety-critical sysems. The report summarises the existing literature in the area as well as the guidance provided by existing safetycritical system development standards. We discuss the three constituent functions of fault tolerant architectures: error detection, damage assessment and confinement and error recovery. We also consider methods for fault pre...

Component Security Design Considerations for J 2 EE and . Net – An Architectural View Part 2

Introduction This series of articles aims to provide information regarding key security design elements for developers, architects, security and development team stakeholders who work on component projects. In the previous issue, we discussed design considerations for Sun Microsystems’ middleware platform Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). In this article we will describe the key issues facing a...

Architectural Design and the Collaborative Research Environment

Given that science is a collaborative endeavor, architects are striving to design new research buildings that not only provide a more pleasant work space but also facilitate interactions among researchers.

Managing University - Industry Research Centres : Five Principles of Good Practice

This document reports the results of a multi-case study of university-industry research centres at a research-intensive UK university. It identifies a series of management principles that enable successful collaboration between universities and firms. The analysis is based on information gathered during interviews with 25 individuals involved in four centres, including representatives from indu...

2 Development and Design Principles