Service-oriented architecture is an architectural approach that can be applied for building autonomous service systems dynamically to satisfy on-demand business requests. During the execution of service compositions, architectural constraint violations relating to functional and non-fucntional system properties need to be handled intelligently and autonomously, possibly requiring architectural ...

An important trend in commercial software development is the creation of architectural standards that describe a common reference architecture for a family of related applications. Currently architectural standards are typically described using informal, or semiformal, techniques, such as application programming interface speci cations, implementation guidelines, and box-and-line diagrams. In t...

Around 2005 it became apparent in the geometry processing community that freeform architecture contains many problems of a geometric nature to be solved, and many opportunities for optimization which however require geometric understanding. This area of research, which has been called architectural geometry, meanwhile contains a great wealth of individual contributions which are relevant in var...