Software Product Lines (SPL), Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Customer Off The Shelf (COTS) components provide a rich supporting base for creating software architectures. Further, they promise significant improvements in the quality of software configurations that can be composed from pre-built components. Software architectural styles provide a way for achieving a desired coher...

Urban monuments encompass a wide range of architectural works either intentionally or unintentionally. These works are often salient due to their inherently explicit or hidden components and qualities in the urban context. Therefore, they affect the mental-spatial representations of the environment and make the city legible. However, the ambiguity of effective components often complicates their...

Pipe and Filter Architecture Style is a very simple, yet powerful architecture that is also very robust. It is a subtype of Dataflow Architectural Style which is very prominently used architectural style in the industries for software development. This Architectural style has any number of components as filters which transform or filter data, before passing it on using connectors known as pipes...

Software Product Lines (SPL), Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components provide a rich supporting base for creating software architectures. Further, they promise significant improvements in the quality of software configurations that can be composed from pre-built components. Software architectural styles provide a way for achieving a desired coh...

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 ...

Understanding architectural characteristics of software components that constitute distributed systems is crucial for maintaining and evolving them. One component framework heavily used for developing component-based software systems is Microsoft’s COM+. In this paper we particularly concentrate on the analysis of COM+ components and introduce an iterative and interactive approach that combines...

Multimedia technology is increasingly being used to create reliable and effective communication environments. However, the design of multimedia applications is currently driven more by intuition than by empirically or theoretically derived design guidelines. In a multimedia application, the software architecture is defined as a set of components manipulating various multimedia data types with s...

Software architecture erosion is a general problem in legacy software. Because they don’t know or don’t understand the original architectural intent, maintainers introduce changes that violate the intended architecture and properties. To fight this trend, component models and languages are designed to try to make explicit, and automatically enforceable, the architectural decisions in terms of c...