Software architecture styles determine to large degree a system’s ability to adapt during runtime. Similarly collaboration patterns describe the flexibility with which humans can join or leave a team and what constraints apply. With the rise of large-scale mixed systems, the boundary between humans and software becomes increasingly blurry. Thus, in this paper, we propose to map architectural st...

Individuals can be classified in terms of having a particular cognitive style or preference in the way in which they perceive or process information. This paper investigates how students with particular cognitive styles, as measured by Riding’s Cognitive Styles Analysis, perform in design project work at particular stages of Architectural Education. It suggests that contrary to assumptions foun...

Enterprise information systems such as ERP, Knowledge Management or e-business systems need to deploy information system architectures which match the organization of the enterprise within which they operate. This calls for system architectures which adopt models from research in organization theory. With this idea in mind, we offer a set of organization–oriented architectural styles for inform...

Patterns such as problem frames and architectural styles are used here to support the formal specification and the development of information systems. New problem frames specific to information systems are proposed to describe identified sub-problems and to help the formal specification task. Recomposition is achieved through a component based approach and an architectural style that puts toget...

During the period between 1860 and 1940, Downtown Cairo witnessed a major building boom that gave birth to a unique architecture combining European styles with local influences and materials. The architectural product of that era will never be equalled and we need to increase the public awareness to these historic buildings that may be less than a hundred years old. The purpose of this project ...

The ASDL language represents a formal methodology for modeling the software architectural styles that are used to develop complex computer systems. In previous work, ASDL has been used to model a coarse-grain dataflow style used for large-scale signal processing applications. This style incorporates a bottom-up design methodology. In this paper, the expressiveness of ASDL is demonstrated by its...

Coarse-grained reconfigurable fabrics (CGRF’s) have great promise for achieving low-energy flexible designs for an application domain. However a universally accepted architecture for coarse-grained reconfigurable fabrics has not yet crystallized, and many architectural options are still under consideration by the research and industry community. One scientific question is how to efficiently rou...

Middleware infrastructures are becoming a pervasive part of many distributed software systems. Wileden and Kaplan argue that middleware, like underwear, should not be the center of attention but should instead be kept hidden from public view, and it should never constrain or dictate what is publicly visible. These are admirable goals, yet the architects of distributed software systems must neve...

As in many other software engineering activities, Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) are fundamental in the process of selection of the architectural style and the technologies for developing a software system. To know more about this issue, we are currently driving a survey to find out which architectural styles and technologies are being in use in IT companies and organizations, and their rela...