the architectural education along the way of creativity has often involved with the formal and physical aspects of design as an effort to read architectural artifacts through its mere external appearances. this article, however, aims to step beyond the manifestation of conventional perspectives on visual aspects of built environment. that is, an act of interpreting the architectural spaces thro...

Individual quality is often signaled by phenotypic flags, such as bright plumage patches in birds. Extended phenotype signals can similarly show quality, but in these cases the signals are external to the individual, often taking the form of objects scavenged from the environment. Through multiple manipulative experiments, we showed that objects used for nest decoration by a territorial raptor,...

Background: Several musical instruments in the past centuries were decorated with engravings, inlays, or paintings. This paper focuses on an integrated approach to detect and characterize the kind of dyes when used for the decorations. The multi analytical campaign was performed on a viol made by Joannes Marcus in the second half of the 16 century. The instrument has been shattered during World...

To remain competitive, organizations are challenged to make informed and feasible value-driven design decisions in order to ensure the quality of their software systems. However, there is a lack of support for evaluating the economic impact of these decisions with regard to software reference architectures. This damages the communication among architects and management, which can result in poor...

ion that we call elaborationpoints. The ability to “drill down” from a contextual view, through logical, to physical architectural constructs is a powerful approach that supports both usability and the widest possible reuse. Currently we are using the terms initial to describe the architectural elaboration point with minimal constraints, logical for the set of designs that include network topol...

Archery is a language for behavioural modelling of architectural patterns, supporting hierarchical composition and a type discipline. This paper extends Archery to cope with the patterns' structural dimension through a set of (re-)con guration combinators and constraints that all instances of a pattern must obey. Both types and instances of architectural patterns are semantically represented as...

This paper introduces an approach for describing and selecting architectural patterns for parallel programming, according to the requirements of order of data and computations of the problem and the nature of their processing components, using pattern descriptions.

Middleware technologies change so rapidly that designers must adapt existing software architectures to incorporate new emerging ones. This paper proposes an architectural pattern and guidelines to abstract the communication barrier whereby allowing the developer to concentrate on the application logic. We demonstrate our approach and the feasibility of easily upgrading the middleware infrastruc...