ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Using style to understand descriptions of software architecture
SIGSOFT '93 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
A Syntactic Theory of Software Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Formalizing style to understand descriptions of software architecture
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Capturing design expertise in software architecture design environments
ISAW '96 Joint proceedings of the second international software architecture workshop (ISAW-2) and international workshop on multiple perspectives in software development (Viewpoints '96) on SIGSOFT '96 workshops
Aqueducts: a layered pipeline-based architecture for XML processing
ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
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An important goal in software engineering is to describe complex software systems at an architectural level of abstraction. While there are many useful architectural paradigms (pipes, blackboards, etc.) they are typically understood only idiomatically and applied in an ad hoc fashion. We show how a formal model allows us to say precisely what we mean by a software architecture, explore its properties, and systematically describe instances of the architecture. We illustrate the approach using the well-known example of pipe-filter architectures.