during the first islamic centuries, kurdistan is one of areas that there has been little information on architectural and monumental structure of this area. in such a situation, imamzadeh aghil monument can provide a valuable insight into the architectural patterns of the perion in the area. this monument is located in the middle of a major archaeological site and its architectural style and ar...

A central tenet of software architecture design is to base this on a formulation of desired quality attributes, such as buildability, performance, and availability of the target system. Thus there is a need for architectural evaluation—ensuring the architecture’s support for desired quality attributes—and a variety of evaluation techniques have been developed, described, and used. Architectural...

As an important type of architectural knowledge, architectural assumptions should be well managed in projects. However, little empirical research has been conducted regarding architectural assumptions and their management in software development. In this paper, we conducted an exploratory case study with twenty-four architects to analyze architectural assumptions and their management in industr...

5 Modeling and description 25 5.1 Different views of architectural description . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.2 Architectural description languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.3 Examples of architectural description languages . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.3.1 Koala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.3.2 C2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2...

The needs of software architectural design and analysis have led to a desire to create CASE tools to support the processes. Such a tool should help: to document an architecture; to reuse architectural artifacts; to aid in exploring architectural alternatives; and to support architectural metrics. This position paper first presents a set of requirements that an ideal tool for architectural desig...

Software architecture is receiving increasingly attention as a critical design level for software systems. As software architecture design resources (in the form of architectural speci cations) are going to be accumulated, the development of techniques and tools to support architectural understanding, testing, reengineering, maintenance, and reuse will become an important issue. This paper intr...

the writing of iranian architectural history has, from its start, followed the principles of western historiography. portions of this history are well expected to be neglected or unattended when writing of it takes place outside its intellectual framework that essentially reflects the iranian throught world. to have a truly iranian architectural historiography, one has to find the theoretical p...