recreation (creativity) is undoubtedly one of the important designing bases and a durable, matchless and unique factor which determines distinction, excellence, and elegance of a building in comparison with other buildings; and architecture as one of the manifestations of human life in a special time and place can be a reflection of thoughts, ideas and living method and also represent identity ...

In order to creatively interact with robots we need to understand how creative thinkers work with objects to explore new ideas physically. Our approach involves comparing the model-making strategies of architects with students to expose the creative extras architects bring to working with physical models. To study this we coded students and architects performing a design task. Architects differ...

Software architects are often forced to make design decisions based on limited information. In this paper, we present an approach that allows software architects to study information about design decisions made by hundreds or more software architects by automatically analyzing the version management data of large open-source repositories. The contribution is, first, that it develops a conceptua...

In software engineering, it is important issue that architects estimate the performance of software in the early phase of development process. Many approaches translate architecture based on UML into analytical models. However, in agent based system development, these approaches ignore or simplify the crucial details of the underlying the performance of an agent platform. Additionally, architec...

[Context and Motivation] Requirements specifications often lack the details needed by software architects to make informed architectural decisions. Lacking such details, the architects either make assumptions or go back to business analysts for clarifications or conduct additional stakeholder interviews. This may result in incorrect requirements and project delays. [Question/problem] In global ...

1 This paper is an enhanced version of the paper published as: Fraga, A., Llorens, J. "Training Initiative for New Software/Enterprise Architects: An Ontological Approach," p. 19, The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'07), 2007. Abstract— This paper describes the importance of new skilled architects in the discipline of Software and Enterprise Architecture. Architects...

Many software systems eventually undergo changes to their basic architectural structure. As systems age, they often require redesign in order to accommodate new requirements, support new technologies, or respond to changing market conditions. At present, however, software architects lack tools to assist them in developing plans for carrying out such evolution. In previous research, we have deve...

Software producing organizations are increasingly using model driven development platforms to improve software quality and developer productivity. Software architects, however, need to decide whether the platform generates code (that might be compiled) or if the model is immediately interpreted by an interpreter embedded in the application. Presently, there is no clear guidance that enables arc...

Software architectural knowledge (AK) is the integrated representation of the software architecture (SA) of a software-intensive system, the architectural design decisions, and the external context/environment. AK annotation using AK conceptual model is used to recover formal AK from SA documentation, including architecture design as well as the design decisions, rationale, context, and other f...