There are two competing architectural styles employed for building Web services: RESTful services and services based on the WS-* standards (also known as SOAP). These two styles have separate follower bases, but many differences between them are ideological rather than factual. In order to promote the healthy growth of Web services research and practice, it is important to distinguish arguments...

As with many historical buildings around the world, building façades are of special interest; moreover, the details of such windows, stonework, and ornaments give each historic building its individual character. Each object of these buildings must be classified in an architectural object library. Recently, a number of researches have been focusing on this topic in Europe and Canada. From this s...

The benefits of requirements traceability to understand architectural representations are still hard to achieve. This is because architectural knowledge usually remains implicit in the heads of the architects, except the architecture design itself. The aim of this research is to make architectural knowledge more explicit by mining homogenous and heterogeneous requirements traceability networks....

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...

This paper proposes a formal model of Federated Identity Management systems (FIMs) in terms of architectural design rewriting. FIMs allow cross-domain user authentication to enable access control across the organisations under the concept known as Circle of Trust (CoT). Patterns of FIMs emerged as recurring CoT scenarios due to the fact that each of the pattern has different security and trust ...

Throughout its entire life cycle software development is subject to many rules constraining and guiding construction of software systems. Examples are best-practice patterns, idioms, coding conventions, design guidelines, architectural patterns, etc. Although such regulations are widely used, their usage is currently implicit or ad-hoc, and most software development environments do not explicit...

In this paper we present an analytical model for estimating architecture-based software reliability, according to the reliability of each component, the operational profile, and the architecture of software. Our approach is based on Markov chain properties and architecture view to state view transformations to perform reliability analysis on heterogeneous software architectures. We demonstrate ...