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...

One of the challenging tasks in engineering education is to bridge the gaps between imagination and real time problems of different engineering areas. The virtual reality (VR) can reduce this gap and also provides clear ideas on the basis of real time problems. The architectural education influenced and goes hand in hands for meeting these crucial challenges using advancements in computer techn...

This paper presents recent developments in information technologies and their impact on architectural design. It presents a practical technique for knowledge-based information modeling extending the currently prevailing Building Information Modelling (BIM) to include information beyond the building elements, and to foster analysis during the design process. Interactive web-based application for...

S. Abrams B. Bloom P. Keyser D. Kimelman E. Nelson W. Neuberger T. Roth I. Simmonds S. Tang J. Vlissides Collecting and organizing all of the architectural information for a system is a challenge faced by information technology (IT) architects. Transforming that information into models of a viable architecture and keeping associated work products consistent and up to date is an even greater cha...

We first relate the architecture of systolic arrays to the technological and economic design forces acting on architects of special-purpose systems some 20 years ago. We then observe that those same design forces now are bearing down on the architects of contemporary general-purpose processors, who consequently are producing general-purpose processors whose architectural features are increasing...

Department of Mechanical Construction and Production, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent – Belgium Department of Architectural Engineering, Sejong University, 98 Kunja Dong, Kwangjin Ku, Seoul, 143-747, South Korea Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Technology (CIRTech), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HUTECH), Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietna...

Justification for Research: the construction companies are facing barriers and challenges in BIM adoption as there is no clear guidance or best practice studies from which they can learn and build up their capacity for BIM use in order to increase productivity, efficiency, quality, and to attain competitive advantages in the global market and to achieve the targets in environmental sustainabili...

This paper is premised on several Australian Aboriginal myths (or sacred histories) from the Georgina River Basin region of Central Australia that concern the Triodia grasses known locally as spinifex (or aywerte). These sacred histories provide an epistemological foundation to the regional intellectual property over traditional spinifex technologies utilized for architectural, material and med...

This paper presents the results of a survey to assess the extent of use of safety architectural patterns in Logica to solve commonly reoccurring problems in the safety domain. A number of Logica safety related projects, active during August 2011, were considered to establish which specific patterns had been used so a profile of pattern use could be established along with a view of their perceiv...