This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...

Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

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In the world of real enterprises, enterprise architecture is a weak discipline. It doesn’t play a role of any real substance in most medium-large enterprises, which are exactly the enterprises that ...

Few buildings from the period between a.d. 500 and 1000 are still intact in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Turkey. The extant pieces of walls, ceilings, and other architectural details provide some of the ...