This document highlights and addresses architecture level software development issues facing researchers and practitioners in the field of Computer Vision. A new framework, or architectural style, called SAI, is introduced. It provides a formalism for the design, implementation and analysis of software systems that perform distributed parallel processing of generic data streams. Architectural p...

Although numerous mechanisms for promoting software reuse have been proposed and implemented over the years, most have focused on the reuse of implementation code. There is much conjecture and some empirical evidence, however, that the most effective forms of reuse are generally found at more abstract levels of software design. In this paper we discuss software reuse at the architectural level ...

This paper shows how Z can be used as a substrate for an architectural style description language. The language provides a collection of abstract software types that support the description of execution and interface semantics, logical views, and relationships between logical views. The software types correspond to application-invariant Z schemas, which provide a type-theoretic basis for the la...

The understanding and reuse of software architectures and designs can be greatly aided by the use of formal models of the architectural styles within which the architectures and designs were developed. The architecture style description language ASDL can be used to build such models. Workshop Goals: Learning, networking, discussing issues related to the relevance of software architectures and a...

Representational state transfer (REST) is an abstraction of the architecture of the World Wide Web; more precisely, REST is an architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements, within a distributed hypermedia system. REST ignores the details of component implementation and protocol syntax in order to focus on t...

Both software engineering research community and standardisation organisations recognized a need for a general standard as a guideline for modelling software architectures. Even though the ANSI/IEEE Standard 1471 provides a widely applicable reference model for that purpose, it merely identifies a need of a rationale for the architectural concepts selected, but does not include any further prin...

We present a UML Profile for the description of service oriented applications. The profile focuses on style-based design and reconfiguration aspects at the architectural level. Moreover, it has a formal support in terms of an approach called Architectural Design Rewriting, which enables formal analysis of the UML specifications. We show how our prototypical implementation can be used to analyse...

An architecture outlines what a system can or cannot do. Attention to software architecture is essential for successful product developments. Therefore, software architecture development is a crucial phase in software development process. As the software intensive systems become complex, software architects face with the challenges of dealing with multiple sometimes conflicting concerns at the ...