-How systems can represent and how systems can learn are two central problems in the study of cognition. Conventional contemporary approaches to these problems are vitiated by a shared error in their presuppositions about representation. Consequently, such approaches share further errors about the sorts of architectures that are required to support either representation or learning. We argue th...

In this paper we construct an information-theoretic model of architectural drawings. This model is then used to quantify and measure the complexities and similarities of drawings. The approach is applied within a linear qualitative shape representation but can be generalized to other types of representation. The descriptive and analytic power of the proposed methods are demonstrated by studying...

Within the conceptual phase of design, architects (and designers in general) collect and look at design documents. These design documents are sources of knowledge and inspiration for designers. In order to support knowledge representation and information organization in an integrated manner during the conceptual design phase, an information model named Architectural Information Map (ArcIMap) ha...

The term software architectural style has recently been introduced to refer to the conventions that are used to interpret a description of a software architecture. The representation and analysis of useful architectural styles is an important problem. This paper gives an overview of a methodology developed by the authors for describing the syntax and semantics of software architectural styles w...