Assembling software components into an architecture is a difficult task because of its combinatorial complexity. There is thus a need for automating this building process, either to assist architects at design time or to manage the self-assembly of components at runtime. This paper proposes an automatic architecture building process that uses ports, and more precisely composite ports, to manage...

This paper reveals the non-technical elements that affect construction project costs, known as soft cost (SCEs). These elusive have received little attention although they are significant in influencing management decisions of a project. There is much interest mitigation for green projects, but focus generally leaning towards hard aspects. Information about SCEs remains obscure. Qualitative app...

• Archetype development, model components and potential applications for UBEM are discussed. Stochastic dynamic occupancy models among the most desired improvements UBEM. could be suitable high accuracy predictions of future climate change scenarios. Integration socio-economic data in is promising but not currently applied. Assigning value year from renovation records tempting entail several pi...

In the past, conventional computer-aided architectural design (CAAD) systems could not manage semantic information on building components and spaces but only graphical and geometric information. However, since the advent of Building Information Modeling (BIM), which has been used for managing semantic building information, determining spatial relationships as well as quantities and properties o...

“Tenet 1: Let 1000 networks bloom”. This is the first principle of the EU IST project 4WARD and sets out one of the primary goals of this project – to explore new approaches that will allow present and future networks to be interoperable within a common architectural framework. As part of our work, we propose a software architecture for the future Internet realizing this core goal. This paper p...

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) controls tangling of concerns by isolating aspects that cross-cut each other into building blocks. Component-based programming (CBP) supports software development by isolating reusable building blocks that can be assembled and connected in many different ways. We show how AOP and CBP can be integrated by introducing a new component construct for programming cla...