Modeling behavior in compositions of software architectural primitives

Software architectures and architectural styles are increasingly used for designing large-scale software systems. Alfa is a framework for the composition of style-based software architectures from a small set of primitives. It models the behavior of architectural components and connectors as orderin...

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Published inAutomated Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering; 20-24 Sept. 2004 pp. 371 - 374
Main Authors Mehta, N.R., Medvidovic, N., Sirjani, M., Arbab, F.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2004
Subjects
Automata
Computational modeling
Computer architecture
Computer science
Connectors
Content addressable storage
Discrete event simulation
Ducts
Relays
Software engineering
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Summary:Software architectures and architectural styles are increasingly used for designing large-scale software systems. Alfa is a framework for the composition of style-based software architectures from a small set of primitives. It models the behavior of architectural components and connectors as orderings among events at their inputs and outputs. Formalizing such behavior is useful for checking conformance of architectures to their styles. We therefore propose a formal approach that uses data-abstract constraint automata to model the behavior of Alfa's compositions, and to verify their behavioral style conformance. We have also developed an automated conformance analyzer for Alfa.
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ISBN:9780769521312
0769521312
ISSN:1938-4300
1068-3062
2643-1572
DOI:10.1109/ASE.2004.1342767