Towards an Approach for Building Reliable Architectures

Amirat, Abdelkrim; Oussalah, Mourad; Khammaci, Tahar

doi:10.1109/iri.2007.4296664

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“…So, by encapsulating attachments inside connectors and having well defined connector interfaces with previously known element types to be connected by each connector type components and/or configurations are assembled in an easy and coherent way in the form of an architectural puzzle (Lego Blocks) without any effort to describe links among components and connectors or between configurations and connectors. Consequently, this approach accelerates the development of component-based systems, improves their evolution, coherence, maintainability and promotes component markets [Amirat07].…”

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First-Class Connectors to Support Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Software Architecture.

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Oussalah²

2009

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To provide hierarchical description from different software architectural view points we need more than one abstraction hierarchy and connection mechanisms to support the interactions among components. Also, these mechanisms will support the refinement and traceability of architectural elements through the different levels of each hierarchy. Current methods and tools provide poor support for the challenge posed by developing system using hierarchical description. This paper describes an architecture-centric approach allowing the user to describe the logical architecture view where a physical architecture view is generated automatically for all application instances of the logical architecture.

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First-Class Connectors to Support Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Software Architecture.

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Oussalah²

2009

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“…So, by encapsulating attachment inside connectors and having well defined connector interfaces with previously known elements to be connected by this connectors, consequently components/configurations and connectors are assembled in an easy and coherent way in the form of an architectural puzzle (Lego Blocks) without any effort to describe links among components and connectors or between configurations and connectors. Consequently, this approach accelerates the development of components, improves testability, coherence, maintainability and promotes component markets [1].…”

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“…In the following section, we define the using context of each mechanism. Some details about the structure of these architectural elements are presented in our previous works [1] and [9].…”

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“…4-The metamodeling hierarchy to locate our model in the pyramid of hierarchies defined in our previous work. All those external views are associated with an internal views generated automatically using the reasoning tools [1].…”

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“…A 0 Level is the real word level (application level) which is an instance of the architecture model level A 1 . At this level the developer has the possibility to select and instantiate elements any times as he needed to describe a complete application.…”

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Hierarchical Model to Develop Component-Based Systems

Amirat

Oussalah

2008

15th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (Ecbs 2008)

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Large and complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architecture. In this context Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) can be used for describing architectures of components-based software systems. Typical ADLs provide explicit support for specifying components, connectors, and configuration as well as for building hierarchical systems configurations. All of them allow structural dependencies among components to be specified to define static configurations. This may be sufficient for an initial system composition, but does not provide enough information for reasoning about the different kind of connections among elements. Physical and logical connections are defined in this paper. Four kinds of hierarchies are also presented. Each one is used to provide special-purpose view about the architecture.

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Enhanced connectors to support hierarchical dependencies in software architecture

Amirat

Oussalah

2008

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on New Technologies in Distributed Systems - NOTERE '08

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The more important level of abstraction in the description of large and complex software is its architecture description. So, at this abstraction level we can describe the principal system components and their pathways of interaction. Software architecture is considered to be the driving aspect of the development process; it allows specifying which aspects and models in each level needed according to the software architecture design. Early Architecture Description Languages (ADLs), nearly exclusive, focus on structural abstraction hierarchy ignoring behavioural description hierarchy, conceptual hierarchy, and metamodeling hierarchy. In this paper we show that all those hierarchies constitute views to appropriately "reason about" software architectures described using our C3 metamodel which is a minimal and complete ADL. We provide a set of mechanisms to deal with different levels of each hierarchy; also we introduce a new enhanced definition for connector concept deployed in C3 architectures.

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Towards an Approach for Building Reliable Architectures

Cited by 5 publications

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First-Class Connectors to Support Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Software Architecture.

First-Class Connectors to Support Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Software Architecture.

Hierarchical Model to Develop Component-Based Systems

Enhanced connectors to support hierarchical dependencies in software architecture

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