We propose a technique that uses webmining principles on event traces for uncovering important classes in a system’s architecture. These classes can form starting points for the program comprehension process. Furthermore, we argue that these important classes can be used to define pointcuts for the introduction of aspects. Based on a medium-scale case study – Apache Ant – and detailed architect...

This paper presents a general architectural model for group communications which are communications that may involve more than two parties. The concept of group is presented and the concept of group association, which is an instance of group communication, is analysed. Those group associations are modelled as a set of basic components called multicast conversations. At the service boundery, new...

When increasing the complexity of software systems new techniques allowing for their adequate manipulation are required. In the last ten years, AOSD has been proposed to manage the systems complexity by considering concepts of AO programming extended along the software life cycle. The suitability of the existence of an AO architectural design appears when AO concepts are extended to the whole l...

This research is focused on using a variety of forms of visualization combined with computer vision within mixed reality environments to understand more about architectural patterns and processes. Can we use this new space created by mixed reality to increase the capacity to process, analyze and transform architectural data? Do the web of relationships made possible between the physical, digita...

To sustain its rapid growth, software industry must embrace a distributed development paradigm in which complex systems are deployed by composing independently developed components. The glue to the development and integration of individual artifacts would be an elaborate software architecture. MESSIA is being developed as a methodology of software architectures that eliminate the possibility of...

Network processors (NPs) are programmable devices with special architectural features that are optimized to perform packet-processing functions. They have emerged to cope with the ever-changing networking applications that are becoming increasingly complex. NPs are expected to become the silicon core of network equipments that require a high degree of flexibility to support evolving network ser...

I criticize recent applications of the "cosmogram" concept to ancient Maya architecture and cities. Although cosmogramsgraphic representations of aspects of the cosmos-are known from Late Postclassic and early colonial Aztec and Maya sources, there is no textual suggestion that buildings or cities were viewed as cosmograms. Numerous authors, how eve^ assert confidently that architectural cosmog...