A significant driver for lowering life-cycle cost and cycle time is the ability to make good design decisions early. Building virtual prototypes, which enable analysis of the impact of decisions, is an effective way to do this. However, virtual prototypes have to support the product's representation as well as its behavior. Building virtual prototypes of complex systems being designed by a mult...

A new breed of web application, dubbed AJAX, is emerging in response to a limited degree of interactivity in large-grain stateless Web interactions. At the heart of this new approach lies a single page interaction model that facilitates rich interactivity. Also push-based solutions from the distributed systems are being adopted on the web for AJAX applications. The field is, however, characteri...

A new breed of web application, dubbed Ajax, is emerging in response to a limited degree of interactivity in large-grain stateless Web interactions. At the heart of this new approach lies a single page interaction model that facilitates rich interactivity. Also push-based solutions from the distributed systems are being adopted on the web for Ajax applications. The field is, however, characteri...

This paper puts forward a proposition that the production of enterprise information systems must embrace a roundtrip architectural modeling lifecycle. Such a lifecycle begins with the definition of a meta-architecture aimed at minimizing and managing software complexity. It then embraces various supportability metrics to ensure that the implementation conforms to the architectural design and th...

Nuclear bodies are subnuclear, spheroidal, and membraneless compartments that concentrate specific proteins and/or RNAs. They serve as sites of biogenesis, storage, and sequestration of specific RNAs, proteins, or ribonucleoprotein complexes. Recent studies reveal that a subset of nuclear bodies in various eukaryotic organisms is constructed using architectural long noncoding RNAs (arcRNAs). He...

There exist numerous models of software architecture (box models, ADL’s, UML, architectural decisions), architecture modelling frameworks (views, enterprise architecture frameworks) and even standards recommending practice for the architectural description. We show in this paper, that there is still a gap between these rather abstract frameworks/standards and existing architecture models. Frame...