ArcAssist-Web: Towards a Logical Reference Architecture for GenAI-Assisted Web Architectural Evolution
Resumo
Web and PWA evolution often requires architectural decisions that cross user-interface, API, data, privacy, and administrative-review boundaries. Generative AI can assist architects in exploring alternatives, provided that its outputs remain grounded in the current Web-system baseline, explicit about assumptions, and subject to human acceptance. This paper presents ArcAssist-Web, a logical reference-architecture proposal for evidence-grounded GenAI assistance in Web architectural evolution. It organizes seven reusable responsibilities: interaction, Web-system and domain context, context and knowledge, prompt orchestration, LLM reasoning, validation and QA, and knowledge management. The proposal is illustrated with an animal-rescue Web/PWA adoption-interest increment. A feasibility-oriented traceability evaluation compares generic prompting with an ArcAssist-Web configuration using frozen Web/domain evidence and a Decision Package contract. Across three retained pairs, both conditions could reach a similar architectural direction, while the configured outputs cited all 15 evidence identifiers and made Web context, assumptions, and validation plans explicit. Because the prompts imposed different output structures, these observations show inspectability and instruction conformance rather than a causal condition effect or architectural correctness.
Palavras-chave:
Generative AI, Web systems, software architecture, architectural evolution, architectural decisions, reference architecture
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David Garlan and Mary Shaw. 1994. An Introduction to Software Architecture. Technical Report CMU-CS-94-166. Carnegie Mellon University.
Athula Ginige and San Murugesan. 2001. Web Engineering: An Introduction. IEEE MultiMedia 8, 1 (2001), 14–18. DOI: 10.1109/93.923949
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Zahra Moezkarimi, Kevin Eriksson, Albin Alm Johansson, Alessio Bucaioni, and Marjan Sirjani. 2025. Harnessing ChatGPT for Model Transformation in Software Architecture: From UML State Diagrams to Rebeca Models for Formal Verification. In 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 387–396. DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00061
Daniel de Sousa Moraes, Polyana Bezerra da Costa, Antonio J. G. Busson, José Matheus Carvalho Boaro, Carlos de Salles Soares Neto, and Sergio Colcher. 2023. On the Challenges of Using Large Language Models for NCL Code Generation. In Anais Estendidos do Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web (WebMedia). Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 151–156. DOI: 10.5753/webmedia_estendido.2023.236175
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, Flavio Oquendo, and Martin Becker. 2012. RAModel: A Reference Model for Reference Architectures. In 2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 297–304. DOI: 10.1109/WICSA-ECSA.2012.49
Dewayne E. Perry and Alexander L. Wolf. 1992. Foundations for the Study of Software Architecture. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 17, 4 (1992), 40–52. DOI: 10.1145/141874.141884
Riccardo Rubei, Amleto Di Salle, and Alessio Bucaioni. 2025. LLM-Based Recommender Systems for Violation Resolutions in Continuous Architectural Conformance. In 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 404–409. DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00063
Mohamed Soliman and Jan Keim. 2025. Do Large Language Models Contain Software Architectural Knowledge? An Exploratory Case Study with GPT. In 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 13–24. DOI: 10.1109/ICSA65012.2025.00012
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Pedro Henrique Dias Valle, Lina Garcés, Tiago Volpato, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, and Elisa Yumi Nakagawa. 2021. Towards Suitable Description of Reference Architectures. PeerJ Computer Science 7 (2021), e392. DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.392
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27/10/2026
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OLIVEIRA, Vanusa Rodrigues de; SIQUEIRA, Bento Rafael; SILVA, Samira Santos da; OLIVEIRA, Johnatan Alves.
ArcAssist-Web: Towards a Logical Reference Architecture for GenAI-Assisted Web Architectural Evolution. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA AND THE WEB (WEBMEDIA), 32. , 2026, Lavras/MG.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
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p. 541-545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/webmedia.2026.30266.
