When designing software architectures, an architect relies on a set of pre-defined styles commonly named architectural patterns. While architectural patterns embody high level design decisions, an architectural tactic is a design strategy that addresses a particular quality attribute. Tactics; in fact, serve as the meeting point between the quality attributes and the software architecture. To g...

Cell and gene-based therapies represent a novel therapeutic modality that has the potential to provide a treatment option for a range of medical conditions. There are, however, numerous processing and manufacturing challenges that must be addressed before such therapies are considered commercially and clinically viable. A significant challenge associated with the manufacture of such therapies i...

In order to have a software architecture design method that achieves quality attribute requirements several aspects of the method must be in place. First there must be some way to specify quality attribute requirements so that it can be determined whether the designed architecture can achieve them. Secondly, there must be some way for modularising the knowledge associated with quality attribute...

The value of a software system results from the interactions between its functionality and quality attributes (such as performance, reliability and security) and the market-place. Quality is a direct consequence of architectural design decisions. Traditional product cost models have focussed on the short term development cost of the product. We argue that if one wants to build realistic cost mo...

Recent works have shown that visual attributes are useful in a number of applications, such as object classification, recognition, and retrieval. However, predicting attributes in images with large variations still remains a challenging problem. Several approaches have been proposed for visual attribute classification; however, most of them assume independence among attributes. In fact, to pred...

Due to the different nature of the available dynamic interactions between components afforded by some middleware infrastructure, distributed information systems (DIS) behave differently from traditional centralized ones. This results in a different view of their quality attributes, which require specifically customized measures for accurate estimation. In previous work we proposed and theoretic...

This chapter describes the growth in seafood production and trade and the main factors causing these developments. We then review the leading economic research on the international seafood trade and markets with a focus on interactions of markets and the management of fisheries and aquaculture. Specific examples include the relationship between fisheries management institutions and internationa...

Architecture reviews are effective for identifying potential problems in architectures, particularly concerning the quality attributes of the system, but are generally expensive. We propose that architecture reviews based on the architecture patterns and their interactions with quality attributes can be done with small effort. We performed an exploratory study to investigate how much time and e...

abstract for evaluating nacl salinity effect on some physiological and qualitative attributes of five winter canola cultivars, an experiment was conducted in a rcd base factorial in three replicates in greenhouse of east azarbaijan agricultural research center in 2008. five salinity levels as 0, 50, 100, 150 and 200 mm nacl treated as first factor on five rape seed (fornax, licord, elite, slm04...