Software architecture is developed as a result of a selection process for software architectural solutions. The complexity, diversity and evolution nature of architectural solutions’ interactions forces the architect to make critical design decisions based only on his own experience. Even though, the same design problem has already been addressed by another architect in a similar situation. In ...

One of the daily tasks of an enterprise architect is to prioritize strategic IT projects. To achieve a business-IT alignment, this prioritization needs to be based on business strategies and goals. Therefore, business goals and their traceability to strategic IT projects are relevant for the enterprise architect. However, surprisingly little formalisations and reasoning techniques have been dev...

in islamic architecture, the architect always tried to decorate the internal and external areas in different ways. one type of these decorations is called brick working, which was current in pre-ilkhanid, ilkhanid period, and after this period. this decoration was used in two ways. in ilkhanid period, the architect used a type of brick which was exactly formed in favorite shapes before baking. ...

Rational Rose is a graphical software modeling tool, using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as its primary notation. It offers an open API that allows the development of additional functionality (“add-ins”). In this paper, we describe Rose/Architect, a RoseTM “add-in” used to visualize architecturally-significant elements in a system’s design, developed jointly by University of Southern Cali...

It is suggested that Category Theory provides the right level of mathematical abstraction to address languages for describing software architectures. Contrarily to most other formalisations of SA concepts, Category Theory does not promote any particular formalism for component and connector description but provides instead the very semantics of the concepts that are related to the gross modular...

MOTIVATION Despite rapid progress in sequencing technology, assembling de novo the genomes of new species as well as reconstructing complex metagenomes remains major technological challenges. New synthetic long read (SLR) technologies promise significant advances towards these goals; however, their applicability is limited by high sequencing requirements and the inability of current assembly pa...

In our experience, a robot designer, behavior architect, and animator must work closely together to create an interactive robot with expressive, dynamic behavior. This paper describes lessons learned from these collaborations, as well as a set of tools and techniques developed to help facilitate the collaboration. The guiding principles of these tools and techniques are to allow each collaborat...

Providing stable compositions of Wireless Sensor Network Service (WSNS) is a challenging issue since the data stream architect often has only a limited control over the stability of the composed services. The architect can instead achieve stability by properly planning the data stream architecture. In this paper, we propose a formal approach which allows a data stream architect to perform stabi...

Measurement of estradiol is useful in assisted reproduction, evaluation of infertility, menopause, and male feminization. The analytic performance of 8 estradiol immunoassays was evaluated. The imprecision and accuracy of the Access, ADVIA Centaur, ARCHITECT i2000, AutoDELFIA, Elecsys 2010, IMMULITE 2000, and Vitros ECi estradiol assays (see text for proprietary information) were evaluated by u...