Recent research points out the necessity for capturing and representing architectural design decisions as a key element of Architectural Knowledge. Despite the variety of tools that allow visualization of this type of knowledge, there still remains a certain lack of maturity. We classify a set of visualization techniques according to their representation form. These techniques are analyzed cons...

today, mass media act like a magic mirror, not only reflecting the reality of societies, but also projecting a variety of images onto people’s thoughts. because of this great ability to produce, reproduce and disperse images, mass media have acquired considerable influence on people’s lives. among the different media, the television in particular has become an inseparable part of most iranian h...

We take the position that it could prove worth to reconcile ideas of the knowledge representation and software architecture research communities. Many existing knowledge representation techniques and formalisms seem to exhibit a lot of potential for representing different aspects of software architectures. To illustrate our case, we show how the theory of conceptual graphs could be a useful can...

An architectural aspect is a concern that cuts across architecture modularity units and cannot be effectively modularized using the given abstractions of conventional Architecture Description Languages (ADLs). Dealing with crosscutting concerns is not a trivial task since they affect each other and the base architectural decomposition in multiple heterogeneous ways. The lack of ADL support for ...