Architectural mismatches are a recognized obstacle to successful software reuse. An architectural mismatch occurs when two or more software components are connected to form a system and those components make differing and incompatible assumptions about their interactions or the environment in which they exist. Mismatch detection and avoidance has been previously discussed in existing literature...

Design methods and digital/spatial environments that combine augmented reality (AR) and architecture are presented, with particular focus on synthecizing a novel design process. The architectural brief is an archeological museum/excavation site that directly confronts issues of occupation, circulation, form, and large archives of data. Combining the efforts of twelve architectural designers wit...

Software architectural design has an enormous effect on downstream software artifacts. Decomposition of functions for the final system is one of the critical steps in software architectural design. The process of decomposition is typically conducted by designers based on their intuition and past experiences, which may not be robust sometimes. This paper presents a study of applying the clusteri...