Software patterns represent a promising research area in reason of the subsequent benefits of its application, mainly in terms of productivity reached with the reuse. In automatic, architectural patterns can be applied in recurrent problems involving diverse types of computational systems. A complex application, for which architectural patterns can bring great contribution, is the Supervisory C...

In the past, conventional computer-aided architectural design (CAAD) systems could not manage semantic information on building components and spaces but only graphical and geometric information. However, since the advent of Building Information Modeling (BIM), which has been used for managing semantic building information, determining spatial relationships as well as quantities and properties o...

The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic IBRARIES copies of this thesis document in whole or in part in any medium now known or hereafter created. Abstract This thesis project proposes a rapid visualization machine that can produce agile prototypes of simple architectural plans on a finite grid system. While various visualization sy...

We consider the programming of multiagent systems from an architectural perspective. Our perspective emphasizes the autonomy and heterogeneity of agents, the components of multiagent systems, and focuses on how to specify their interconnections in terms of high-level protocols. In this manner, we show how to treat the programming of a multiagent system as an architectural endeavor, leaving asid...

This paper proposes a novel reflective approach, orthogonal to the classic computational approach, whereby a system performs computation on its software architecture instead of individual components. The approach supports system’s self-management activities such as dynamic reconfiguration to be realized in a systematic and conceptually clean way and added to existing systems without modifying t...

Introduction — Software architectures model systems at high levels of abstraction. They capture information about a system’s components and how those components are interconnected. Some software architectures also capture information about the possible states of components and about the component behaviors that involve component interaction; behaviors and data manipulations internal to a compon...