While an enterprise architectural approach is appropriate for business and IT alignment it also has potential with respect to the design and implementation of healthcare applications by effective representation of healthcare processes. Our research is to develop an enterprise architectural framework for managing contextual knowledge by exploiting object location deduction technologies in health...

This paper proposes a virtual space project for the web which is capable of 'containing' virtual buildings or representations of real buildings (through computer rendering, video or photographs). Its theme requires a detailed study of the museum (fi-om the 'ineta-project' to the architectural development of the project itself) in order to demonstrate how the realization of a virtual project goe...

Today’s software operate in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve consistently with its operational environment. The Tropos requirements oriented development methodology, has defined a number of organizational architectural styles which are suitable to cooperative, dynamic and distribute...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML), a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, is utilized to encode descriptions in Wright/c, the architectural description language Wright extended with confidentialityrelated specifications. The grammar of Wright/c is converted to an XML Schema. A common format is thus formed which can be used by applications accepting architectural descriptions as input. T...

Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we present a formal approach for (distributed) software understanding based on abstraction hierarchies represented by architectural design patterns. This approach allows us to model the distributed software applications thr...

In this paper, we present a new architectural metric, termed dominating ratio, together with an appropriate visualisation. The dominating ratio provides support for re-architecting in situations where existing metrics, like coupling and cohesion, fall short. A tabular representation with browsing facilities enables a systematic investigation of the software architecture for incremental re-archi...

In order to facilitate the development and proliferation of contextaware ubiquitous learning services, there is a need for architectural support in the user context processing and learning content management. In this paper, we propose a context-aware ubiquitous learning infrastructure called Semantic Learning Space. It leverages the Semantic Web technologies to support explicit knowledge repres...