In the last few years Component Based Development (CBD) and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) are gaining more and more relevance. Whilst CBD has been shown as a good mean to reuse designs and to build complex systems by the plug-and-play mechanisms, AOP makes code more reusable and complex systems more comprehensible. However, little efforts have been made to integrate both paradigms and conse...

Recognition of primitives from digital contents is an outstanding problem in volumetric modelling. In this work a bottom-up systems methodology is developed. Systems methodology involves not only to components but the role performed by them. Their role is specified following a hierarchical approach going from lowto high-level recognition which allows identify geometric, structural and semantic ...

A lot of current research efforts in self-adaptive systems community have been dedicated to the explicit modeling of architectural aspects related to system self-awareness and context-awareness. This paper presents a flexible and extensible representation of architectural design spaces for selfadaptation approaches based on feedback control loops. We have defined a generic representation for de...

Mobile applications development challenges the modeling activities that precede the technical design of a software system. The context of a mobile system includes a broad spectrum of technical, physical, social and organizational aspects. Some of these aspects need to be built into the mobile applications. Selecting the aspects that are needed is becoming increasingly more complex with mobile s...

Architectural specifications of software systems show them as a collection of interrelated components, and constitute what has been called the Software Architecture level of software design. It is at this level where the description and verification of structural properties of the system are naturally addressed. Besides, the use of explicit descriptions of the architecture of software systems e...

Modelling is recognised as an essential activity in the architectural design of software systems. Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a framework implementing this idea. Ontologies are knowledge representation frameworks that are ideally suited to support modelling in this endeavour. We propose here a layered ontological framework that addresses domain modelling, architectural modelling, and int...

The increasing importance of sustainability in urban and architectural design progressively influences the conception of urban neighborhoods. Among the multiple aspects of this evolution, the reduction of global energy consumption plays a crucial role. Its full achievement involves carrying out different complementary strategies in a structured approach at the territorial, urban, architectural ...

Software architecture is considered one of the most important indices of software engineering today. Software Architecture is a technical description of a system indicating its component structures and their relationships, and is the principles and rules governing designing. The success of the software depends on whether the system can satisfy the quality attributes. One of the most critical as...

Legacy systems, no matter which architectural style they rely on, contain numerous pieces of source code with very similar functionality. We see these system aspects as a good starting point for rearchitecturing legacy systems. The goal is the evolution of the legacy system architecture towards a product line architecture which incorporates the originally replicated system aspects as reusable, ...