Mapping an ADL to a Component-Based Application Development Environment
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A Tailorable Distributed Programming Environment
Ada-Europe '02 Proceedings of the 7th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Towards Multiple Access in Generic Component Architectures
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Using Aspects for Enforcing Formal Architectural Invariants
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
P/S-CoM: Building correct by design Publish/Subscribe architectural styles with safe reconfiguration
Journal of Systems and Software
Formal design of structural and dynamic features of publish/subscribe architectural styles
ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
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The concept of software architecture, also said system structure or system configuration is especially important to design complex software systems, providing a model of the large-scale structural properties of systems. Module interconnection languages (MILs) introduced the idea of creating program modules and connecting them to form larger structures. However, MILs do not support the description of important architectural elements. A new class of description languages, referred to as architectural description languages (ADLs), have recently emerged. Most ADLs, however, support only the description of static software architectures and not dynamic or reconfigurable software architectures. A further limitation of current ADLs is that they focus mainly on the formal notation and usually do not offer proof systems and tools to enable designers to formally verify the properties of their designs. We have developed the ZCL framework, which is a formal framework, specified in Z, to describe and reason about dynamic distributed software architectures. In this paper, we use a simple case study - the client-server system - to demonstrate how our formal framework ZCL can be used to specify and verify reconfigurable software architectures.