Architecture evolution is a central feature of virtually all software systems. As new market opportunities, technologies, platforms, and frameworks become available systems must change their organizational structures to accommodate them, requiring large-scale and systematic restructuring. Today architects have few tools to help them plan and execute such evolutionary paths. In particular, they ...

Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the world’s most famous architects, produced several masterworks in his career, possibly celebrated which is Kaufmann House, better known as Fallingwater. One common arguments historians make about this house that it unique Wright’s oeuvre, not similar to other designs he three major styles dominated career: Prairie, Textile-Block and Usonian styles. In paper, derived...

Ideally, a software project commences with requirements gathering and specification, reaches its major milestone with system implementation and delivery, and then continues, possibly indefinitely, into an operation and maintenance phase. The software system’s architecture is in many ways the linchpin of this process: it is supposed to be an effective reification of the system’s requirements and...

Software architectures provide high-level abstractions for representing the structure, behavior, and key properties of software systems. Various architecture description languages, styles, tools, and technologies have emerged over the past decade. At the same time, there has been comparatively little focus on techniques and technologies for transforming architectural models into running systems...

We present a pattern-based software lifecycle and a method that supports the systematic execution of that lifecycle. First, problem frames are used to develop a formal specification of the problem to be solved. In a second phase, architectural styles are used to construct an architectural specification of the software system to be developed. That specification forms the basis for fine-grained d...

One of the ideas of agile software development is to respond to changes rather than following a plan. Constantly changing businesses result in changing requirements, to be handled in the development process. Therefore, it is essential that the underlying software architecture is capable of managing agile business processes. However, criticism on agile software development states that it lacks p...

The magazine “Design” was published from September 1927 to October 1935 by Sousei-sha in Osaka, led Kouichi Emura. It introduced some architectural organizations such as International Architectural Association of Japan, Souu-sha, Teppi-sha, and Rokka Crafts Association. works articles were range eclecticism modernism, various specialists architecture, design, landscaping, furniture, etc.. edito...

Modern architectural styles, like the service-oriented style underlying web services, are highly dynamic. This complicates not only their practical application, but also the modeling and prediction of their behavior. To account for this problem, we propose to model architectures as graphs, represented as instances of UML class diagrams, and to describe their reconfigurations by graph transforma...

Society’s increasing dependence on software-intensive systems is driving the need for dependable, robust, continuously available systems. Runtime system reconfiguration is one aspect of achieving continuous availability. We present an architecture-based approach to runtime software reconfiguration, highlighting the beneficial role of architectural styles and software connectors in facilitating ...

due to human beings’ aesthetic sense, they have always been engaged in embellishing their living environment throughout the history. given the different culture, customs, beliefs and even varied policy of each society, the applied arts or decorative styles have constantly been evolved. the qajar architecture was influenced by russian and central europe styles, and by combining them with the ira...