In this paper, we discuss software architectural design methods, especially that in the early phase of software development to find out the design direction for the software. In architectural design, we examine fundamental software structure considering the requirements on potential software that will be developed on the architecture, in terms of functionalities and quality attributes. Besides,...

Symmetry and regularity abound in architectural models, often as a result of economical, manufacturing, functional, or aesthetic considerations. We show how recent work on symmetry detection and structure discovery can be utilized to analyze architectural designs and real-world artifacts digitized using 3D scanning technology. This allows reverse engineering of procedural models that facilitate...

Modern distributed operating systems provide users with transparent access to all resources of the computer network by means of distributed object abstraction. The access reliability and efficiency of such systems are determined by the internal implementation of the given abstraction. The existing architectures are based either on the centralized storage of the object state in one of network no...

Over the past three decades, considerable effort has been devoted to the study of software architecture. A major portion of this effort has focused on the originally proposed view of four “C”s—components, connectors, configurations, and constraints—that are the building blocks of a system’s architecture. Despite being simple and appealing, this view has proven to be incomplete and has required ...

Designing and maintaining a software system’s architecture typically involve making numerous design decisions, each potentially affecting the system’s functional and nonfunctional properties. Understanding these design decisions can help inform future decisions and implementation choices and can avoid introducing regressions and architectural inefficiencies later. Unfortunately, design decision...