Symmetry and regularity abound in architectural models, often as a result of economical, manufacturing, functional, or aesthetic considerations. We show how recent work on symmetry detection and structure discovery can be utilized to analyze architectural designs and real-world artifacts digitized using 3D scanning technology. This allows reverse engineering of procedural models that facilitate...

This study compares lexical retrieval amongst monolinguals and intermediate bilinguals and advanced bilinguals. It also investigates the possible effects of their language learning strategies on their respective lexical retrieval advantage. The study used a mixed methods design and the groups consisted of 20 Persian near-monolinguals, 20 Persian-English intermediate level bilinguals, and 20 Per...

Over the past three decades, considerable effort has been devoted to the study of software architecture. A major portion of this effort has focused on the originally proposed view of four “C”s—components, connectors, configurations, and constraints—that are the building blocks of a system’s architecture. Despite being simple and appealing, this view has proven to be incomplete and has required ...

Designing and maintaining a software system’s architecture typically involve making numerous design decisions, each potentially affecting the system’s functional and nonfunctional properties. Understanding these design decisions can help inform future decisions and implementation choices and can avoid introducing regressions and architectural inefficiencies later. Unfortunately, design decision...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) constitute a highly promising software architectural approach for modern application domains such as peer-to-peer and ubiquitous computing, information retrieval, semantic web services or ebusiness. Unfortunately, despite considerable work in software architecture during the last decade, few research efforts have aimed at truly defining languages for designing such arc...