Packet classification is an enabling function for a variety of Internet applications including Quality of Service, security, monitoring, and multimedia communications. In order to classify a packet as belonging to a particular flow or set of flows, network nodes must perform a search over a set of filters using multiple fields of the packet as the search key. In general, there have been two maj...

A machine with human like consciousness would be an extremely complex system. Prior work has demonstrated that the way in which information handling resources are organized (the resource architecture) in an extremely complex learning system is constrained within some specific bounds if the available resources are limited, and that there is evidence that the human brain has been constrained in t...

The United States (US) healthcare organizations are continuously struggling to cope-up with evolving regulatory requirements e.g. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001: 2015. These requirements are not only affecting the US healthcare industry but also other industries as well e.g. software indus...

Architecture-based runtime management (ARM) is a promising approach for Internetware systems. The key enablement of ARM is runtime architecture infrastructure (RAI) that maintains the causal connection between runtime systems and architectural models. An RAI is uneasy to implement and, more importantly, specific to the given system and model. In this paper, we propose a model-driven approach fo...

As an important type of architectural knowledge, architectural assumptions should be well managed in projects. However, little empirical research has been conducted regarding architectural assumptions and their management in software development. In this paper, we conducted an exploratory case study with twenty-four architects to analyze architectural assumptions and their management in industr...

5 Modeling and description 25 5.1 Different views of architectural description . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.2 Architectural description languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.3 Examples of architectural description languages . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.3.1 Koala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5.3.2 C2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2...

The needs of software architectural design and analysis have led to a desire to create CASE tools to support the processes. Such a tool should help: to document an architecture; to reuse architectural artifacts; to aid in exploring architectural alternatives; and to support architectural metrics. This position paper first presents a set of requirements that an ideal tool for architectural desig...

Software architecture is receiving increasingly attention as a critical design level for software systems. As software architecture design resources (in the form of architectural speci cations) are going to be accumulated, the development of techniques and tools to support architectural understanding, testing, reengineering, maintenance, and reuse will become an important issue. This paper intr...