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Style-Based Architectural Reconfigurations

Bruni, Roberto and Lluch Lafuente, Alberto and Montanari, Ugo and Tuosto, Emilio (2007) Style-Based Architectural Reconfigurations. Technical Report del Dipartimento di Informatica . Università di Pisa, Pisa, IT.

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    Abstract

    We introduce Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to deal with the design of reconfigurable software architectures. The key features we promote are: (i) rule-based approach (over graphs); (ii) hierarchical design; (iii) algebraic presentation; and (iv) inductively-defined reconfigurations. Architectures are suitably modeled by graphs whose edges and nodes respectively represent components and connection ports. Architectures are designed hierarchically by a set of edge replacement rules that fix the architectural style. Depending on their reading, productions allow: (i) top-down design by refinement, (ii) bottom-up typing of actual architectures, and (iii) well-formed composition of architectures. The key idea is to encode style proofs as terms and to exploit such information at run-time for guiding reconfigurations. The main advantages of ADR are that: (i) instead of reasoning on flat architectures, ADR specifications provide a convenient hierarchical structure, by exploiting the architectural classes introduced by the style, (ii) complex reconfiguration schemes can be defined inductively, and (iii) style-preservation is guaranteed.

    Item Type: Book
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Software Architectures, Architectural Styles, Reconfiguration, Graphs, Term Rewriting
    Subjects: Area01 - Scienze matematiche e informatiche > INF/01 - Informatica
    Divisions: Dipartimenti (until 2012) > DIPARTIMENTO DI INFORMATICA
    Depositing User: dott.ssa Sandra Faita
    Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2014 13:18
    Last Modified: 09 Dec 2014 13:18
    URI: http://eprints.adm.unipi.it/id/eprint/2190

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