Architectural styles represent composition patterns and constraints at the software architectural level and are targeted at families of systems with shared characteristics. While both style-specific and style-neutral modeling environments for software architectures exist, creation of such environments is expensive and frequently involves reinventing the wheel. This paper describes the rapid des...

Making architectural decisions based on requirements, analyzing cost-benefit trade-offs, and keeping design options open is a difficult task. Existing work on classification of architectural styles and features of reusable components, and derivation of relevant architectural styles provides useful heuristics to the task, but it remains to be largely a laborintensive activity. In this paper, we ...

software architecture is considered one of the most important indices of software engineering today. software architecture is a technical description of a system indicating its component structures and their relationships, and is the principles and rules governing designing. the success of the software depends on whether the system can satisfy the quality attributes. one of the most critical as...

Images of iconic buildings, such as the CN Tower, instantly transport us to specific places, such as Toronto. Despite the substantial impact of architectural design on people's visual experience of built environments, we know little about its neural representation in the human brain. In the present study, we have found patterns of neural activity associated with specific architectural styles in...

Architecting service-oriented systems is a complex design activity. It involves making trade-offs among a number of interdependent design decisions, which are drawn from a range of concerns by various software stakeholders. In order to achieve effective and efficient SOC design we believe a careful study of architectural styles that can form the reference architecture is important. Hence, this ...

We take the position that it could prove worth to reconcile ideas of the knowledge representation and software architecture research communities. Many existing knowledge representation techniques and formalisms seem to exhibit a lot of potential for representing different aspects of software architectures. To illustrate our case, we show how the theory of conceptual graphs could be a useful can...

Software systems development happens within a context which organizational processes are wellestablished. Hence, software needs to be built with flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve consistently with its operational environment. In this sense, the Tropos requirements oriented development methodology, has defined a number of organizational ...

The conceptual modelling of software architectures is of central importance for the quality of a software system. A rich modelling language is required to integrate the different aspects of architecture modelling, such as architectural styles, structural and behavioural modelling, into a coherent framework. We propose an ontological approach for architectural style modelling based on descriptio...