Dynamic Configuration for Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
UML distilled: applying the standard object modeling language
UML distilled: applying the standard object modeling language
An Event-Based Architecture Definition Language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Abstractions and Implementations forArchitectural Connections
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Connectors in Configuration Programming Languages: Are They Necessary?
ICCDS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
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Building a software service requires careful analysis of the requirements given by the customer for the system. It is often difficult to understand the system requirements correctly, due to the fact that they are usually described in plain language. This difficulty could be overcome if a sufficiently precise description of system services to be provided can be produced that is easy to follow by both customers and designers. Given such a specification of a service that on the surface permits several ways of implementing it, the design team should be able to select with reasonable confidence, the most appropriate set of design options, before commencing the building of the service. Naturally, this requires the development of modelling and analysis techniques that enable the evaluation of various design options for a given service. As a first step towards achieving these goals, the paper briefly reviews current approaches to specifying system architectures and explores the suitability of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) as a specification tool.