Exploiting style in architectural design environments
SIGSOFT '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
A formal basis for architectural connection
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Applied software architecture
A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Modeling software architectures in the Unified Modeling Language
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Architecting Systems with UML 2.0
IEEE Software
Composing architectural styles from architectural primitives
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Responsibilities and Rewards: Specifying Design Patterns
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Modeling variability in software product lines with the variation point model
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue: Software variability management
Modeling architectural patterns using architectural primitives
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Incorporating fault tolerance tactics in software architecture patterns
Proceedings of the 2008 RISE/EFTS Joint International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
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Architectural patterns provide proven solutions to recurring design problems that arise in a system context. A major challenge for modeling patterns in a system design is effectively expressing pattern variability. However, modeling pattern variability in a system design remains a challenging task mainly because of the infinite pattern variants addressed by each architectural pattern. This paper is an attempt to solve this problem by categorizing the solution participants of patterns. More precisely, we identify variable participants that lead to specializations within individual pattern variants and participants that appear over and over again in the solution specified by several patterns. With examples and a case study, we demonstrate the successful applicability of this approach for designing systems. Using the UML extension mechanism, we offer extensible architectural modeling constructs that can be used for modeling several pattern variants.