The DOI matches its Crossref record; 16 of the 16 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Dynamic structure in software architectures
Abstract
Much of the recent work on Architecture Description Languages (ADL) has concentrated on specifying organisations of components and connectors which are static. When the ADL specification is used to drive system construction, then the structure of the resulting system in terms of its component instances and their interconnection is fixed. This paper examines ADL features which permit the description of dynamic software architectures in which the organisation of components and connectors may change during system execution.The paper outlines examples of language features which support dynamic structure. These examples are taken from Darwin, a language used to describe distributed system structure. An operational semantics for these features is presented in the π-calculus, together with a discussion of their advantages and limitations. The paper discusses some general approaches to dynamic architecture description suggested by these examples.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
A calculus of mobile processes, I
Milner, R., Parrow, J., & Walker, D. (1992) · Information and Computation · doi:10.1016/0890-5401(92)90008-4 · Cited by 2,845
Foundations for the study of software architecture
Perry, D. E., & Wolf, A. L. (1992) · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · doi:10.1145/141874.141884 · Cited by 2,023
A calculus of mobile processes, II
Milner, R., Parrow, J., & Walker, D. (1992) · Information and Computation · doi:10.1016/0890-5401(92)90009-5 · Cited by 1,696
Introduction to Software Architecture
(2009) · Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China · doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74343-9_1 · Cited by 1,099
Abstractions for software architecture and tools to support them
Shaw, M., DeLine, R., Klein, D. V., Ross, T. L., Young, D. M., & Zelesnik, G. (1995) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/32.385970 · Cited by 813
The evolving philosophers problem: dynamic change management
Kramer, J., & Magee, J. (1990) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/32.60317 · Cited by 798
Self-citationThe Polyadic π-Calculus: a Tutorial
Milner, R. (1993) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58041-3_6 · Cited by 780
Specification and analysis of system architecture using Rapide
Luckham, D. C., Kenney, J. J., Augustin, L. M., Vera, J., Bryan, D., & Mann, W. (1995) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/32.385971 · Cited by 766
Specifying distributed software architectures
Magee, J., Dulay, N., Eisenbach, S., & Kramer, J. (1995) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/3-540-60406-5_12 · Cited by 764
Self-citationA distributed location system for the active office
Harter, A., & Hopper, A. (1994) · IEEE Network · doi:10.1109/65.260080 · Cited by 427
Cited by
A classification and comparison framework for software architecture description languages
Medvidovic, N., & Taylor, R. N. (2000) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/32.825767 · Cited by 1,987
Self-adaptive software: Landscape and research challenges
Salehie, M., & Tahvildari, L. (2009) · ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems · doi:10.1145/1516533.1516538 · Cited by 1,266
Self-Managed Systems: an Architectural Challenge
Kramer, J., & Magee, J. (2007) · Future of Software Engineering (FOSE '07) · doi:10.1109/fose.2007.19 · Cited by 829
Self-citationEngineering Self-Adaptive Systems through Feedback Loops
Brun, Y., Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Gacek, C., Giese, H., Kienle, H., Litoiu, M., Müller, H., Pezzè, M., & Shaw, M. (2009) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02161-9_3 · Cited by 576
Specifying and analyzing dynamic software architectures
Allen, R., Douence, R., & Garlan, D. (1998) · Lecture Notes in Computer Science · doi:10.1007/bfb0053581 · Cited by 395
Metadata
- Authors
- Magee, J., & Kramer, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 1996-10
- Pages
- 3-14
- OpenAlex
- W2135670602
- Cited by
- 536
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 20.60
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Dynamic structure in software architectures. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1145/239098.239104
- The paper
- Magee, J., & Kramer, J. (1996). Dynamic structure in software architectures. Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/239098.239104
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
