Software architecture is emerging as an important discipline for engineers of software. Software architects have been limited by a lack of standardized ways to represent architecture as well as analysis methods to predict whether an architecture will result in an implementation that meets the requirements. Architects also have had little guidance in how to go about designing the architecture, w...

As an emerging discipline, Component-Aware System Architecting (CASA) takes advantage of the composition of reusable heterogenous architectural components developed by different people, at different time. CASA can also collaborate with component-aware requirements elicitation to strengthen component-aware requirements’ claims. However, CASA does not come for free, one of many challenges facing ...

During an architectural evolution of a component-based software, certain quality attributes may be weakened. This is due to the lack of an explicit definition of the links between these non-functional characteristics and the architectural decisions implementing them. In this paper, we present a solution that aims at assisting the software maintainer during an evolution activity on his demand. I...

A new technique is proposed to handle fault simulation at the architectural level. The technique bypasses the need for complete gate-level structure and ee-ciently uses the architectural information. Symbolic data representing groups of stuck-at faults, known as fault eeects, are propagated across the circuit with intelligent propagation prediction. Fault eeects may combine and form new groups ...

The ARC project (for Architecture Represented Computationally) is an attempt to reproduce in computer form the architectural historian’s mental model of the Gothic cathedral. This model includes the background information necessary to understand a natural language architectural description. Our first task is to formalize the description of Gothic cathedrals in a logical language, and provide a ...

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This study has introduced the Art in a new vision to increase the understanding of Saudi Art at the International level. The focus was on architecture patterns (in Al_Haram Al_Madini) and literature (poems, speeches). It is achieved through introducing the Art through the eyes of symmetry as new concept embedded in the art. The aims of the study are: 1. to explore the characteristics of Saudi A...