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...

Knowledge about the reception of architectural structures is crucial for architects or urban planners. Yet obtaining such information has been a challenging and costly activity. With the advent of the Web, a vast amount of structured and unstructured data describing architectural structures has become available publicly. This includes information about the perception and use of buildings (for i...

An architectural aspect is a concern that cuts across architecture modularity units and cannot be effectively modularized using the given abstractions of conventional Architecture Description Languages (ADLs). Dealing with crosscutting concerns is not a trivial task since they affect each other and the base architectural decomposition in multiple heterogeneous ways. The lack of ADL support for ...

The architectural metaphor has played an important role in many aspects of IS/ICT since the 1970s. One key influence in this has been Zachman’s ISA, first introduced in 1987. This is now a pivotal aspect of the domain, but it has developed in a lop-sided fashion with the structural features of the architectural trope effacing the cognitive ones. This paper focuses attention back on the neglec...

Computer aided diagnosis systems provide vital opinion to radiologists in the detection of early signs of breast cancer from mammogram images. Architectural distortions, masses and microcalcifications are the major abnormalities. In this paper, a computer aided diagnosis system has been proposed for distinguishing abnormal mammograms with architectural distortion from normal mammogram. Four typ...

Software product lines are the answer of software engineering to the increasing complexity and shorter time-to-market of contemporary software systems. Nonetheless, software product lines demand for advanced maintainability and high flexibility. The latter can be achieved through the proper separation of concerns. Features pose the main concerns in the context of software product lines. Consequ...

The process of developing architectural forms has greatly been changed by advances in digital technology, especially in design tools and applications. In recent years, the advent of graphical scripting languages in the design process has profoundly affected 3D modeling. Scripting languages help develop algorithms and geometrical grammar of shapes based on their constituent parameters. This stud...

This paper examines the historical emergence of oldest markets: Nakhichevan Covered Market on Square (1914) and Old Bazaar (1893), reveals their architectural, artistic design features. Reconstruction, restoration preservation objects in modern urban conditions are investigated, new factual data obtained. The purpose study is to review compare covered markets Rostov-on-Don Nakhichevan-on-Don. E...

Building facade classification by architectural styles allows categorization of large databases of building images into semantic categories belonging to certain historic periods, regions and cultural influences. Image databases sorted by architectural styles permit effective and fast image search for the purposes of content-based image retrieval, 3D reconstruction, 3D city-modeling, virtual tou...