the interaction between architecture and culture, defined in human and built-environment relationships, challenges both theoretical and practical fields of architecture. to have an affective confrontation to this challenge, it is more important to re-define both sides of this interaction, culture and architecture. cultural context should represent in architecture. there are some movements in th...

The value of architecture in a corporate information technology environment lies in guidance on technology choice and system design. Underlying this is the ability of the architecture team to research the relevant architectural domains well, to formulate informed strategies, to document these explicitly, and to guide projects in their application. To do this, architects must make decisions betw...

This paper defines a three-dimensional architectural framework, named Technology and Information Platform (TIP), to effectively handle the architecture complexity and manage the architectural assets of enterprise information systems in a service-oriented paradigm. This comprehensive model is composed of a Generic Architecture Stack (GAS) comprising a stack of architecture layers, and the contex...

The increasing use of embedded software, often implemented on a core processor in a single-chip system, is a clear trend in the telecommunications, multimedia, and consumer electronics industries. A companion paper in this issue [1] presents a survey of application and architecture trends for embedded systems in these growth markets. However, the lack of suitable design technology remains a sig...

The technology S-curve is a useful framework describing the substitution of new for old technologies at the industry level. In this paper I use information from the technological history of the disk drive industry to examine the usefulness of the S-curve framework for managers at thefirm level in planning for new technology development. Because improvements in over-all disk drive product perfor...

In the surgical eld the demand for new training methods has increased in order to cope with the development of surgical technology. Virtual reality technology ooers great potential in the training simulation eld. This paper presents a surgical training system which utilises both virtual reality technology and the advantage of world wide accessibility ooered by the web. The requirements of such ...

The increasing use of embedded software, often implemented on a core processor in a single-chip system, is a clear trend in the telecommunications, multi-media and consumer electronics industry. A companion paper in this issue [1] presents a survey of application and architecture trends for embedded systems in these growth markets. However, the lack of suitable design technology remains a signi...

Performance evaluation and design space exploration from early specifications is still a time consuming, experience and technology dependant issue in the design process. However, evaluation of architectural alternatives at an early stage of the design process is important because the choices made have a critical impact on the system final characteristics (area, performances, power consumption, ...

in recent years, the banking industry has made significant changes in technology and communications. the expansion of electronic communications and a large number of people around the world access to the internet, appropriate to establish trade and economic exchanges provided but high costs, lack of flexibility and agility in existing systems because of the large volume of information, confiden...