Contemporary avant-garde architecture is addressing the demand for an increased level of articulated complexity by means of retooling its methods on the basis of parametric design systems. The contemporary architectural style that has achieved pervasive hegemony within the contemporary architectural avant-garde can be best understood as a research programme based upon the parametric paradigma. ...

We show how the formal description language LOTOS can be used to deene software architectures and how patterns over LOTOS can serve to characterize architectural styles. We characterize styles by giving characteristics of the involved processes, a top-level communication pattern, and constraints that are suucient conditions for a concrete architectural description to be an instance of a given s...

Domain specljic software architectures are one of the most relevant products of domain modeling. A new architectural style, with its corresponding architectural elements and constraints, is proposed. The style matches the constructive principles of the object oriented and real-time communities, such that design decisions can be evaluated based on mathematical analysis of real-time behavior prev...

Designing the detailed architecture of a style or of an architectural family is a difficult task. However, it offers great benefits for the product architectures detailed design based on this style or family. The present work proposes a meta-model for the development of applications with layered architectural style and distributed with the middleware CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architec...

We propose Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to formalise the development and reconfiguration of software architectures based on term-rewriting. An architectural style consists of a set of architectural elements and operations called productions which define the well-formed compositions of architectures. Roughly, a term built out of such ingredients constitutes the proof that a ...

Architectural styles represent composition patterns and constraints at the software architectural level and are targeted at families of systems with shared characteristics. They enable architectural reuse and hence can bring economy to architecture-based software development. Existing research on architectural styles provides little guidance for the systematic design and construction of archite...

We have noticed a common architecture in many systems that emphasize flexibility and run-time configuration. In these systems, business rules are stored externally to the program such as in a database or XML files. The object model that the user cares about is part of the database, and the object model of the code is just an interpreter of the users’ object model. We call these systems “Adaptiv...

Architectural style classification differs from standard classification tasks due to the rich inter-class relationships between different styles, such as re-interpretation, revival, and territoriality. In this paper, we adopt Deformable Part-based Models (DPM) to capture the morphological characteristics of basic architectural components and propose Multinomial Latent Logistic Regression (MLLR)...

The description of run-time changing architectures cannot be limited to the specification of a unique static topology but must cover the scope of all the correct configurations. We develop, in this paper, the concept of architectural styles to achieve this goal. We elaborate and specify the basic architectural styles for the design of service-oriented applications. For this purpose we develop a...