Architectural knowledge consists of architecture design as well as the design decisions, assumptions, context, and other factors that together determine why a particular solution is the way it is. Except for the architecture design part, most of the architectural knowledge usually remains hidden, tacit in the heads of the architects. We conjecture that an explicit representation of architectura...

Photogrammetric documentation can provide a sound database for the needs of architectural heritage preservation. However, the major part of photogrammetric documentation production is not used for subsequent architectural heritage projects, due to lack of knowledge of photogrammetric documentation accuracy. In addition, there are only a few studies with rigorous analysis of the requirements for...

Architectural analysis is key to producing high quality architectures. In this demonstration we present two extensions to AcmeStudio, and domain-neutral Architecture Development Environment, to add Performance and Security Simulation. Using AcmeStudio as the integration platform for these analyses allows comparisons and trade-offs between these different quality attributes.

Due to the superiority of functional requirements of equipment and systems over human requirements in the field of architectural and environmental design of industrial buildings, users have to adapt themselves to the conditions which might be followed by imposed biological and psychological pressures. The present study examines the components and environmental parameters influenced by building ...

DWQ is a cooperative project in the ESPRIT program of the European Communities. It aims at establishing foundations of data warehouse quality through linking semantic models of data warehouse architecture to explicit models of data quality. This paper provides an overview of the project goals and offers an architectural framework in which the individual research contributions are embedded.

In enterprise application development and other software construction projects, a critical success factor is to make sound architectural decisions. Text templates and tool support for capturing architectural decisions exist, but have failed to reach broad adoption so far. One of the inhibitors we perceived on large-scale industry projects is that architectural decision capturing is regarded as ...

In process of software architecture design, different decisions with system-wide impacts are made. An important decision of design stage is the selection of appropriate software architecture style. Since quantitative impacts of styles on quality attributes have not been studied yet, their application is not systematic. Since Reliability is one of the essential quality requirements of software s...

An important way that the reliability of a software system is enhanced is through the implementation of specific run-time measures called runtime tactics. Because reliability is a system-wide property, tactic implementations affect the software structure and behavior at the system, or architectural level. For a given architecture, different tactics may be a better or worse fit for the architect...

This paper presents an architectural pattern for structuring adaptive applications using aspectoriented programming in order to obtain separation of concerns. It is composed of known and novel patterns organized so as to provide good maintainability and modularity. 1

This paper introduces an approach to describing and selecting design patterns for developing communication components of parallel programs. The approach uses the kind of communication requirements of the architectural pattern whose processing components have to be communicated, along with characteristics and features of the parallel hardware platform and programming language synchronisation mec...