Modern software development is driven by many critical forces. Among them are fast deployment requirements and easy-to-maintain code. These forces are contradicted by the rising complexity of the technological landscape among others. We introduce a concept aiding in lowering these negative aspects for codebased software development. Protagonists of our work are explicit semantics in source code...

Making and documenting architectural design decisions becomes increasingly important in the process of software architecting. However, the remoteness of different decision stakeholders, ranging from local distribution in an office environment to globally distributed teams, as well as the different domain knowledge, expertise and responsibilities of the stakeholders hinder effective and efficien...

This invited talk will discuss some major issues in developing visual interfaces for mobile devices as well as demonstrate a number of new mobile visual applications and interaction techniques that we have developed in domains as diverse as tourism, health & fitness, navigation, emergency response, geospatial and architectural visualization. It will also deal with the issue of providing designe...

Enterprise architecting is a complex process that includes incorporating knowledge, processes, systems, technologies, and people. In order to ensure the appropriate value integration in this complex process, key fundamentals for value integration need to be explored and studied in this context. Previous research has shown that architecture management and business strategy are still largely disi...

We demonstrate the emergence of the U-duality group in compactification of Matrix theory on a 4-torus. The discussion involves non-trivial effects in strongly coupled 4+1 dimensional gauge theory, and highlights some interesting phenomena in the Matrix theory description of compactified M-theory.

There is no doubt that the systems’ integration is one of the most important and complicated tasks in software filed especially for complex applications like banking systems. Complexity in integrating banking systems often comes from continues changes in both technical and business features provided by them to meet customer needs. Banking systems always come from different software vendors whic...

The project is a digital architectural visualization of an individual's physiological data in real time. It is both a probing and representational system that brings together science and art through architectural design. Architecture provides the conceptual and visual tools for expressing the complexities of an individual's physiological state. Visualizing the intricate nature of organic life, ...

Software architects struggle to choose an adequate architectural style for multi-tenant software systems. Bad choices result in poor performance, low scalability, limited flexibility, and obstruct software evolution. We present a comparison of 12 Multi-Tenant Architecture (MTA) patterns that supports architects in choosing the most suitable architectural pattern, using 17 assessment criteria. B...

P. Brittenham R. R. Cutlip C. Draper B. A. Miller S. Choudhary M. Perazolo The IT Infrastructure Libraryt defines a set of best practices to align information technology (IT) services to business needs and constitutes the framework for IT service management (ITSM). This framework helps organizations manage their IT services using standard design patterns and the requisite customization. In this...

Navigation systems nowadays have become ubiquitous, with many users relaying on them to find on-the-fly directions to new locations. With current advances in technology, modern navigation systems augment navigation directions with new information ranging from traffic, tolls, accidents and any other issue that could lead to delays in a given route, to social network aspects such as schedule, fri...