This paper is about the relationship between an organization’s software portfolio architecture and its ability to make changes to it. Responding to business and technology changes often involves modifying the software portfolio and the speed and cost of making changes to the software portfolio is a measure of the system’s flexibility. The specific research question is: “How does software portfo...

In recent years, the banking industry has made significant changes in technology and communications. The expansion of electronic communications and a large number of people around the world access to the Internet, appropriate to establish trade and economic exchanges provided but high costs, lack of flexibility and agility in existing systems because of the large volume of information, confiden...

Introduction The use of information technology in healthcare has seen varying success across states, due to differing institutional capacities. Despite isolated successes and partial gains, public health information technology systems in the country are unable to support integrated decision making at either district or state levels. An emphasis on technological advancements without significant ...

Swiss Re has established an architectural framework, tools, and concepts that enable business people to specify their view of the business in a consistent and formal manner. Based on repository technology, this business model is refined for each application. The architectural framework ensures that a specific list of integration and evolution problems are either solved or their complexity reduc...

The computational performance of multiprocessors continues to improve by leaps and bounds fueled in part by rapid improvements in processor and interconnection technology I O performance thus becomes ever more critical to avoid becoming the bottleneck of system performance In this paper we provide an introduction to I O architectural issues in multiprocessors with a focus on disk subsystems Whi...

BIM (Building Information Modeling) has been recently implemented by many Architecture, Engineering, and Construction firms due to its productivity gains and long term benefits. This paper presents the development and implementation of a sustainability assessment framework for an architectural design using BIM technology in extracting data from the digital building model needed for determining ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the contemporary paradigm of choice for developing scalable, loosely-coupled applications that span organisations. However the architectural paradigm that is SOA is often confused with the implementation technology that is Web Services. In this paper we aim to clarify the fundamental tenets of SOA and their relevance to Internet-scale computing (or Grid co...

This paper outlines an Architectural Model and accompanying modelling notation that addresses on the need to model management component interfaces and their business contexts in a technology neutral manner in order to promote convergence on stable, reusable solutions. The approach combines existing modelling concepts related to component-based and model-driven software development from TINA-C, ...

This paper introduces the notion of Architectural Bias, which can be used to measure the influence of the architecture of Arbiter Physically Unclonable Functions (APUFs) on the quality of its outputs. A PUF design with less architectural bias is better than one which has more architectural bias. Architectural bias is the bias in the challenge-response behavior of a PUF due to the architectural ...

In this paper we propose the concept of Synthetic Space—architectural space fused with the properties of digital bits. Past efforts at integrating digital technology into architectural space have generally assumed architecture to be a stable, invariant background onto which layers of digital information/devices/services can be overlaid. In Synthetic Space, however, this stability is instead sup...