Abstract The idea of combining an eye tracker and VR goggles has opened up new research perspectives as far studying cultural heritage is concerned, but also made it necessary to reinvestigate the validity more basic eye-tracking done using flat stimuli. Our intention was investigate extent which flattening stimuli in 2D experiment affects obtained results. Therefore conducted connected virtual...

The architecture of cloud applications differs from traditional software architectures mainly regarding their basic architectural elements, the services, the metadata about the services for expressing information related to quality parameters and pricing models, and the constraints over the applications and the used services. This paper presents Cloud-ADL, a seamless extension of the ACME ADL t...

It is decided that the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) standard developed by the WorldWide Web Consortium (W3C) is an appropriate tool to encode the descriptions expressed with the confidentiality annotated form of the architectural description language (ADL) Wright and then the grammar of the language is converted to an XML Schema. Thus, a common format is constituted which can be used by app...

Architectural description languages (ADLs) are essential means for a system and software design in the large. Their common concepts are components, ports, interfaces and connectors. Some of them already support the representation and management of variance, a prerequisite to support product line engineering, but the support of variability often stops on component level. In this paper, a more de...

Cognitive science emphasizes the strength of visual formalisms for human learning and problem solving. In software engineering, a clear, visual presentation of a system’s architecture can significantly reduce the effort of comprehension. Yet, all too often the documentation of complex software systems lacks clear identification of the architectural constituents and insufficiently relates them t...

The management and assurance of “systems of systems” (SoSs) are hampered by the difficulty of gaining confidence that a particular architecture of constituent systems will meet a global SoS-level requirement. Research suggests that recording explicit technical contracts at the boundaries between the SoS-constituent systems may help with verification of SoS-level properties, including non-functi...

Architectural features such as pipelines, instructions that use registers implicitly, and instructions that can be executed on any of several types of functional units require a tightly integrated instruction scheduler and register allocator. Such an integrated system can detect the interactions between the various problems that must be solved and therefore improve the use of available resource...

The paper illustrates the utility to switch from a 3D content model to a Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) in order to support conservation and management of built heritage. This three dimensional solution is based on simplified parametric models, suitable for industrial elements and modern architecture, that can be usefully applied to heritage documentation and management of the d...

Understanding and representing the evolution of architectural artefacts over time requires a careful examination of heterogeneous, questionable pieces of data. Accordingly, our position is that computer graphics can and will support such investigation if and only if they are designed, above all, as information visualisation disposals (may the visual result be realistic or not). But contemporary...