The purpose of this study is to capture the spatial representation and techniques modern Chinese commercial housing by investigating development sales center, a special architectural space type born under unique cultural social background. Based on investigation classification exterior composition characteristics such as layout, boundary approach, 11 types diversified character are obtained, te...

The share of software in embedded systems has been growing permanently in the recent years. Thus, software architecture as well as its evaluation have become important parts of the development of embedded systems to describe, assess, and assure sound architecture as basis for high quality systems. Furthermore, design space exploration can be based on architecture evaluation. To achieve an effic...

Architectural patterns(styles) are important artifacts containing specialized design knowledge to build good-quality systems. Complex systems often exhibit several architectural patterns in their design which leads to the need of architectural pattern composition. Unfortunately, information about the composition of patterns tend to be vaporized right after the composition process which causes p...

An important way that the reliability of a software system is enhanced is through the implementation of specific run-time measures called runtime tactics. Because reliability is a system-wide property, tactic implementations affect the software structure and behavior at the system, or architectural level. For a given architecture, different tactics may be a better or worse fit for the architect...

This paper presents an architectural pattern for structuring adaptive applications using aspectoriented programming in order to obtain separation of concerns. It is composed of known and novel patterns organized so as to provide good maintainability and modularity. 1

This paper introduces an approach to describing and selecting design patterns for developing communication components of parallel programs. The approach uses the kind of communication requirements of the architectural pattern whose processing components have to be communicated, along with characteristics and features of the parallel hardware platform and programming language synchronisation mec...

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...

We describe an integrated belief-desire-intention (BDI) architecture that is capable of acting in service of inference and vice versa. The results are achieved by identifying the relationship between inference and acting, and making certain architectural and ontological commitments. A single module called a rational engine operates on a uniform representation of beliefs, acts, plans, and reason...

Architectural Description Languages (ADLs) fall into the narrow category of frequently using only one fixed representation scheme. Over the past years, it has become more obvious that no single such ADL is adequate in addressing a large number of stakeholder concerns. This paper, therefore, discusses the need and challenges of multi-view development with ADLs and introduces a decorative stance ...

This paper discusses virtual reality reconstructions of historical sites. Seeing the past as a cultural construction makes the process of representation problematic. Two case studies illustrate aspects of the visualisation of virtual environments: how authenticity in computer reconstructions is reduced to their visuality, and how historically-based VR environments as copies honour their origina...