Software architecture is seen as one of the key elements for achieving a high degree of reuse in product lines. To get more focus on architectures, many organizations want to improve their ability to find and maintain a successful architecture. To achieve this they have to involve their most senior designers. In this paper we discuss experiences from an industrial course on software architectur...

The course timetabling problem consists in scheduling a set of lectures in a cyclic fixed period of time, typically a week. We consider the course timetabling problem for a set of university departments, in which each department prepares the schedule for its curricula according to private rules, constraints, and objectives, and relying on own resources. We consider the typical scenario in which...

in this paper the design and implementation of fault tolerable architecture for scientific workflow engines is presented. the engines are assumed to be implemented as composite web services. current architectures for workflow engines do not make any considerations for substituting faulty web services with correct ones at run time. the difficulty is to rollback the execution state of the workflo...

This paper describes how an industrial-scale real-time computing platform, namely the Honeywell TDC3000, has been incorporated into the undergraduate process control course at Arizona State University. The mixing tank dynamics and gas oil furnace control experiments described in this paper are among eleven laboratory exercises developed for this course which provide students with unique insight...

The term Globalization undoubtedly has affected all parts of humanity life in current century. Globalization as a comprehensive phenomenon has influenced economical, political, social and cultural aspects of our societies. Contemporary architecture as a multidimensional category is depended on various factors and needs to be pursued in different fields, in order to reach to a perfect comprehend...