This paper describes an intelligent computer-aided architectural design system (ICAAD) called ICADS. ICADS encapsulates different types of design knowledge into independent “critic” modules. Each “critic” module possesses expertise in evaluating an architect’s work in different areas of architectural design and can offer expert advice when needed. This research focuses on the representation of ...

Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a system’s architecture; (ii) alignment is preserved between the architectural description and its implementation at all stages of system construction and maintenance; and (iii) architectural changes are treated with the sa...

Let G(n ;m) denote a graph of n vertices and m edges. Vertices of G will be denoted by x 1 ,. .. ,y 1. .. ; edges will be denoted by (x, y) and triangles by (x, y, z). (G-x 1-x 2 x k) will denote the graph G from which the vertices x 1 ,. .. , xk and all edges incident to them have been omitted. has been omitted. A special case of a well known theorem of Turin states 2 that every G(n ; 4 + 1) c...

Aim of the paper is the study of how architectural representation changed in the digital age, focusing the relationship between the two following opposing aspects: on one hand the idea of progressive loss of any referentiality with the real world—as suggested by the concept of “Hypereality” defined by Baudrillard at the end of the Seventies, i.e., a simulated reality more real of reality; on th...

Architectural conformance testing can help detect inconsistencies between an architectural model that has been verified and a system that has been implemented. Architectural descriptions suitable for powerful static analyses are necessarily abstractions and idealizations of the actual implementation structure of software systems, making the relation between architectural model and as-built stru...

In this section, we provide definitions of basic software architectural concepts and use them to define architectural smells. Our definitions are not intended to be complete; they are restricted to those architectural concepts that will be useful for identifying smells. We also provide shorthand predicates in Figure 1 that we use to help us define architectural smells. A software system’s archi...

Software systems development happens within a context which organizational processes are wellestablished. Hence, software needs to be built with flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve consistently with its operational environment. In this sense, the Tropos requirements oriented development methodology, has defined a number of organizational ...

Architectural Knowledge (AK) is defined as the integrated representation of the software architecture of a software-intensive system or family of systems along with architectural decisions and their rationale, external influence and the development environment. A fifth workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge (SHARK) was held jointly with ICSE 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. The...

Software architecture modelling and representation has become an important phase of the development process of complex software systems. Using software architecture representation as a high level view provides many advantages during all phases of the software life cycle. Nevertheless, for many systems, such architecture representation is not available. To deal with this problem, we propose in t...