A large portion of software development effort is focused on modification and evolution of existing software systems. To feed forward-engineering and design activities, analysts must first recover and synthesize a complete and consistent set of architectural representations. Architectural Synthesis is one method to build this representation. During the Architectural Synthesis of a software syst...

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...

Teaching architectural design is not primarily concerned with presenting a body of knowledge analytically, but rather with influencing the way students act in a design situation. Previous design cases play an important part in this process, as they provide students with sets of objectives and corresponding solution patterns. Nevertheless, one of the main problems with using precedents in the de...

The aim of this study is to develop an efficient and practical method of a direct mapping of a panoramic projection on an unfolded prism and pyramid polyhedral projection surface with the aid of a computer. Due to the fact that straight lines very often appear in any architectural form we formulate algorithms which utilize data about lines and draw panoramas as plots of functions in Mathcad sof...

Due to advances in computer hardware, virtual environments become significantly larger and more complex. Therefore the modeling of virtual worlds, e.g. for computer animation and games becomes increasingly time and resource consuming. In architectural settings façade features are influenced by the underlying geometrical structure or even by other façade structures, e.g. façade edges made of lar...

We have presented an approach for automated knowledge modelling and re-use in design through the development of an algorithm that operates in conjunction with the machine learning technique. The approach presented has the advantage that such automated knowledge modelling system works in conjunction with the problem-solving process as the knowledge representation is in an embedded/distributed st...

From conceptualization to production, design studies are manifested through the images produced by the architectural students. As a result of this incessant condition, what has been framed through those images is a crucial task both for the young architect to reveal his intentions and to professionals and scholars who will judge and evaluate these products. Representational drawings, in general...