Architecture as a designerly way of thinking and knowing is to interact with its environment. The manuscript is to speculate “interactive form-generation” based on high-performance architecture theory, and discuss the precursors and the potentials. The research aims to explore and determine the roots, aspects of interactive architecture as a part of performance-based design in contemporary arch...

Since tectonic and stereotomic theories have neither been used systematically nor dealt with simultaneously for the interpretation of architecture, by explaining the theoretical position of critics and their thoughts, the process of their interaction will be more effective. The main questions asked is it possible to interpret architecture through the interaction of tectonic and stereotomical th...

In constructing a survey of the architectural and urban history of traditional Asia, how would one define the edges of the region under study? This paper will argue that such a study can reasonably exclude Western Asia (also referred to as the Middle East, or the Ancient Orient), modern Siberia, much of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Philippines, Australia, and most of the Pacific Islands for ...

Executive Summary This paper discusses the requirements and challenges inherent in the design of a carrier-class network operating system (OS). Key facets of Juniper Networks ® Junos ® operating system, Juniper's network operating system, are used to illustrate the evolution of OS design and underscore the relationship between functionality and architectural decisions. The challenge of designin...

We present Raexplore, a performance modeling framework for architecture exploration. Raexplore enables rapid, automated, and systematic search of architecture design space by combining hardware counter-based performance characterization and analytical performance modeling. We demonstrate Raexplore for two recent manycore processors IBM BlueGene/Q compute chip and Intel Xeon Phi, targeting a set...

The concept software architecture becomes more and more important in the software development process. As a matter of fact, [9] states that software design is considered a two-step process: architectural design and detailed design. Architectural design describes top-level structure and organization of a software system, identifying its components, and is considered today the most important part...

Due the fact that Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a recent paradigm, it lacks tools and frameworks to model its architecture. Existing ADLs (Architectural Description Languages) do not support modelling Mobile Cloud Architecture (MCA), since the latter encompasses more complicated and rich architectural features -including contextual informationthan traditional applications. In this paper we pr...