Software architecture is the most important artifact in the software life cycle. The architectural description and the architectural design decide the quality and the longevity of the software. The design decisions made to arrive at a particular software architecture decide the value of quality attributes such as performance, reliability, security and modifiability. Also the percentage of desig...

When organizations cooperate closely, for example after a company merger, there is typically a need to integrate their in-house developed software into one coherent system, preferably by reusing from all of the existing systems. The parts that can be reused may be arbitrarily small or large, ranging from code snippets to large self-containing components. Not only implementations can be reused h...

Religious place attachment is an affective bond that develops between people and their religious settings. The published literature shows that although religion has a significant impact on the public ‘place attachment’, the architectural features and attributes of the places could still play an influencing role in strengthening this attachment. However, the role of architectural characteristics...

We describe a conceptual framework for understanding software architecture as software models. Within this setting we focus on a particular perspective by describing a software system execution as consisting of interacting components. We characterize the component and interaction concepts and we devise means for making them explicit. Finally we consider architectural evolution in the realm of c...

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...

The process of video indexing determines the quality of video retrieval. We present a modularization of indexing systems in which dependencies of components are made explicit. We stress the impact of human interaction in the architectural scheme, as the semantic gap between automatic abstractions and semantic indices requires human intervention. We discuss the components for efficient indexing,...

In this paper, we introduce an architecture description language (ADL) for PCOMs (a context oriented component model). The language is described at three levels: (1) Building blocks (PCOMs context oriented components types) (2) Connectors, which connect components externally and internally, and (3) Architectural Configuration, which includes a full description of composition and decomposition m...

An architectural analysis for a fault-tolerant quantum computer is thoroughly presented: With 1,000 superconducting circuit components, problems currently intractable classical computers could be solved.