A coherent description of an enterprise architecture provides insight, enables communication among stakeholders and guides complicated change processes. Unfortunately, so far no enterprise architecture description language exists that fully enables integrated enterprise modelling, because for each architectural domain, architects use their own modelling techniques and concepts, tool suppor...

During component composition, mismatches may occur on different aspects, such as interaction behaviors between components and features imposed by architectural styles. In this paper, we studied architectural mismatches related to connecting components using a specified architectural style, which implies that the connections supported by components may be incompatible with the connection suppose...

The positive results obtained by researchers on aspect-oriented programming during the last few years are promoting the aim to export their ideas to the whole software development process. One of the stages in which Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques can be introduced is software architectural design. This would make design of complex systems an easier task whilst cost devel...

Lighting can be better integrated to the architectural design process through computational tools that are capable enough to visualize and analyze the luminous environment accurately. This paper describes an image-based lighting analysis procedure that operates with high dynamic range lighting data for evaluating architectural spaces. The discussions mainly refer to visual and metrological aspe...

This paper investigates an approach to the use of fractals in architectural design. Two major aspects are discussed. First, the effect of the direction of the line segments on the generated fractal, as well as, the proportions between the generator and the initiator. Secondly, the meanings attached to the lines segments that constitute the fractal are based on some known architectural organizat...

Software architects principally leverage successful architectural design practices systematized in terms of architectural styles and tactics. While architectural tactics focus on particular non-functional properties, styles are typical solutions that generally coverage several aspects. The problem is that we do not yet have a formal account of how styles and tactics interact in a way that is su...

In the IoT-based economy, a large number of subjects (companies, public bodies, or private citizens) are willing to buy data services offered by that provide, operate, host IoT devices. To support economic transactions in this setting, and pave way for implementation decentralized algorithmic governance powered smart contracts, adoption blockchain has been proposed both scientific literature ac...