While Enterprise Architecture Modeling (EAM) methodologies become more and more popular, an EAM methodology tailored to the needs of virtual organizations (VO) is still to be developed. Among the most popular EAM methodologies, TOGAF has been chosen as the basis for a new EAM methodology taking into account characteristics of VOs presented in this paper. In this new methodology, referred as Vir...

Computers are often used in performance of popular music, but most often in very restricted ways, such as keyboard synthesizers where musicians are in complete control, or pre-recorded or sequenced music where musicians follow the computer’s drums or click track. An interesting and yet little-explored possibility is the computer as highly autonomous performer of popular music, capable of joinin...

The concept of ornament has emerged as a result of the existence of the human being and its relation to its environment. Ornament of objects, which aim at adding qualitative features to objects alongside their quantitative states, is a practice that is as old as humanity. Within this process of the individual’s efforts in thinking, designing, creating, and communicating, one comes across orname...

this paper seeks to investigate a new definition for architecture by unifying the three vitruvian principles of firmitas, utilities, and venustas via a phenomenological approach in the interpretation and analysis of their role in defining architecture. the paper is composed in two main sections. the first section investigates the nature of architecture based on the mentioned principles, where a...

The design of control architectures for large-scale systems formed by the interconnection of several interacting subsystems is a challenging task. The interactions between the subsystems have a significant influence on the local control decisions as well as the overall system optimality and need to be accounted for explicitly. An increasingly popular technique to control such systems is the Coo...

Main-memory OLTP engines are being increasingly deployed on multicore servers that provide abundant thread-level parallelism. However, recent research has shown that even the state-of-the-art OLTP engines are unable to exploit available parallelism for high contention workloads. While previous studies have shown the lack of scalability of all popular concurrency control protocols, they consider...

The present manuscript deals with the realization of Processing In-memory (PIM) computing architecture using Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) and Akers array. The PIM computing architecture becomes popular due to its effective framework for storage and computation of data in a single unit. Here, we illustrate two input NAND and NOR gate with the help of QCA based Akers Array as case study. T...

this article presents a novel method and development paradigm that proposes a general template for an enterprise information structure and allows for the automatic generation and modification of enterprise workflows. this dynamically integrated workflow development approach utilises a conceptual ontology of domain processes and tasks, enterprise charts, and enterprise entities. it also suggests...

With the advances of technology, thin-client / server architecture has become popular in multi-user / singlenetwork environments. Thin-client is a user terminal in which the user can login to a domain and run programs by connecting to a remote server. Recent developments in network and hardware technologies (cloud computing, virtualization, etc.) have made the thin-client / server architecture ...

Shared window systems have become a popular vehicle for supporting distributed, synchronous collaboration. At present they are difficult to build and they support limited paradigms of multi-user interaction with shared applications. We believe this difficulty is largely due to the inverted nature of the client/server architecture of most distributed window systems. The architecture is inverted ...