The sociability and quality of behavior settings, according to general psychology data, are the most significant environmental values, measuring which helps to assess the success of environmental and architectural aspects. The present study was aimed at investigating the efficient environmental characteristics for the achievement of sociability in educational space. This issue has been addresse...

This paper presents a quality-driven approach to embodying non-functional requirements (NFRs) into software architecture using architectural tactics. Architectural tactics are reusable architectural building blocks, providing general architectural solutions for common issues pertaining to quality attributes. In this approach, architectural tactics are represented as feature models, and their se...

Web engineering research community has proposed several web design methods that have proven successful for the specification of the functional and navigational requirements posed by Web information systems. However, the architectural features are often ignored in the design process. This situation causes Web applications with rigid and predefined architectures depending on the Web design method...

Nowadays, the maturity reached by the Web engineering research community can be assessed by the myriad of web design methods that have proven successful for the specification of the functional and navigational requirements posed by Web information systems. However, these proposals often fail to address architectural features, which results in Web specifications with rigid architectures, with no...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is an area that is becoming important in software engineering. Currently it is focused on how to deal with aspects from the early phases of the software development process, in order to reduce the complexity produced by these aspects in these first phases. Software Architecture (SA) is one of the first steps in the software development process; the SA...

A peer-to-peer architectural model defines an overlay network topology and a routing strategy. If these aspects are tied together by a deterministic logical model, we say that the architecture is structured. Otherwise, we say it is unstructured. Based on these assumptions, in recent years many complex P2P architectural models have been defined, their performance evaluation being carried out mai...

The concept of Location Law was recently put forward for the modelling of architectural aspects of distributed and mobile systems that need to be location-aware. These are systems for which communication and access to resources need to be modelled explicitly at the higher architectural levels of design and cannot be relegated to the lower infrastructural levels: components need to know where th...

This article investigates aspects in the context of the step-wise development of software product lines. Specifically, we propose the integration of aspects into AHEAD, an architectural model for feature-based product line development. We introduce the notion of aspect refinement based on Aspectual Mixin Layers, a technique for implementing features. Aspect refinement enables a programmer to ev...