Universal Design for Learning (UDL) aims to increase accessibility to learning by extending the concepts of Universal Design (UD). UD arose in the field of architecture and suggests that one can increase the accessibility of an architectural feature if certain considerations are made to the design of that feature prior to its construction. The essence of UDL is to extend accessibility of a lear...

This paper investigates a method for modelling computersupported cooperative work, to provide a common language for users and developers collaborating in design. The research is grounded in an empirical study of the inhouse development of groupware and the work practice of system developers. Through an appropriation of Christopher Alexander’s architectural pattern language, it is proposed that ...

Having recognized the Internet functional and architectural properties as well as its design principles the query becomes whether the Future Internet shall be built between the "evolutionary approach" and the "clean slate approach". Some assumption that it is not capable to resolve the challenges facing today's Internet without rethinking the basic assumptions and desig...

In this paper we present ideas and architectural principles upon which we are basing the development of a distributed, open-source infrastructure that, in turn, will support the expression of business models, the dynamic composition of software services, and the optimisation of service chains through automatic self-organising and evolutionary algorithms derived from biology. The target users ar...

As a research project implemented with graduate students from TU_____, BuildingRelations [BR] deals with the development of an interactive software prototype to support the design process: BR employs bottom-up principles of organization to generate functional layouts exhaustively enabling development of more alternatives than by means of conventional sketching methods mainly because architectur...

It has recently been recognized that the entorhinal cortex has a crucial role in spatial representation and navigation. How the position of an animal is computed within the entorhinal circuitry remains to be determined, but the architectural organization of this brain area might provide some clues. Here, we review three organizational principles--recurrent connectivity, interlaminar connectivit...

Networking research has traditionally focused on enabling communication between network hosts. This research program has produced a myriad of specific algorithms and protocols to solve such problems as error recovery, congestion control, routing, multicast and quality-ofservice. It has also led to a set of general architectural principles, such as fate sharing and the end-to-end principle, that...

In order to achieve higher levels of abstraction in architectural design, we investigate extensions to parallel program design based on the use of explicit state variables to accommodate the action-based discipline of interaction that is typical of architecture description languages. Our study focus on primitives that support non-determinism, choice and fairness in guarded-command based languag...

In this paper we describe a method for near real-time identification of attack behavior and local security policy violations taking place over SSH. A rational is provided for the placement of instrumentation points within SSHD based on the analysis of data flow within the OpenSSH application as well as our overall architectural design and design principles. Sample attack and performance analysi...

In order to achieve higher levels of abstraction in architectural design, we investigate extensions to parallel program design based on the use of explicit state variables to accommodate the action-based discipline of interaction that is typical of architecture description languages. Our study focus on primitives that support non-determinism, choice and fairness in guarded-command based languag...