Data-driven systems and applications are specialized software solutions for acquisition, management, and presentation of information. These systems are usually developed using the same software tools, technologies, and processes used for creating any other type of software. Not only is this approach inefficient, but also it results in extreme redundancies due to the inherently repetitive nature...

An increasingly important requirement for software systems is the capability to adapt at run time in order to accommodate varying resources, system errors, and changing requirements. For such self-repairing systems, one of the hard problems is determining when a change is needed, and knowing what kind of adaptation is required. In this paper we describe a partial solution in which stylized arch...

This paper proposes a formal model of Federated Identity Management systems (FIMs) in terms of architectural design rewriting. FIMs allow cross-domain user authentication to enable access control across the organisations under the concept known as Circle of Trust (CoT). Patterns of FIMs emerged as recurring CoT scenarios due to the fact that each of the pattern has different security and trust ...

Multi-tenant software applications serve different organizations from a single instance and help to save development, maintenance, and administration costs. The architectural concepts of these applications and their relation to emerging platform-asa-service (PaaS) environments are still not well understood, so that it is hard for many developers to design and implement such an application. Exis...

This paper presents an evolutionary approach to learning emergent style in architectural designs. Emergence is the process of making features explicit which were previously only implicit. Style is considered as a set of common characteristics of a group of designs. A syntax-semantics model to interpret style is proposed and is represented at a genetic level. A genetic engineering technique is u...

during the first islamic centuries, kurdistan is one of areas that there has been little information on architectural and monumental structure of this area. in such a situation, imamzadeh aghil monument can provide a valuable insight into the architectural patterns of the perion in the area. this monument is located in the middle of a major archaeological site and its architectural style and ar...

OF THE DISSERTATION Computational State Transfer: An Architectural Style for Decentralized Systems

Often, software architects impose a particular style on the software systems they design. For large software systems, they would like to ensure that the design continues to conform to this style during the maintenance phase of the software-life cycle. We will assume that the architectural design of a software system is available; for instance, it may have been extracted from the source code of ...