or cone, abstraction is chosen to represent a spectrum of user inputs/requirements that are narrowed, refined, and structured into a system design. User inputs require refinement f...
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Paul Grisham,...
We propose a framework for constructing secure systems at the architectural level. This framework is composed of an implementation-oriented formalization of a system’s architect...
Daniel Conte de Leon, Jim Alves-Foss, Paul W. Oman
Architecture has been identified as a main tool for high quality system development. It encapsulates the earliest design decisions of the system under development. These decisions...
Model-driven Architecture (MDA) is a software architecture framework proposed by the Object Management Group OMG. MDA emphasises the importance of modelling in the architectural de...
Abstract—A growing number of applications start using Semantic Web technologies. The base concept in this technology is the use of ontologies, allowing first-order logic reasoni...