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A formal basis for architectural connection
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As software systems become more complex, the overall system structure—or software architecture—becomes a central design problem. An important step toward an engineering discipline of software is a formal basis for describing and analyzing these designs. In the article we present a formal approach to one aspect of architectural design: the interactions among components. The key idea is to define architectural connectors as explicit semantic entities. These are specified as a collection of protocols that characterize each of the participant roles in an interaction and how these roles interact. We illustrate how this scheme can be used to define a variety of common architectural connectors. We further provide a formal semantics and show how this leads to a system in which architectural compatibility can be checked in a way analogous to type-checking in programming languages.
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- Authors
- Allen, R., & Garlan, D.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
- Published
- 1997-07
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 213-249
- ISSN
- 1049-331X (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7392
- OpenAlex
- W2013658284
- Cited by
- 1,253
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 62.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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