Higher-order architectural connectors

Antónia Lopes; Michel Wermelinger; José Luiz Fiadeiro

doi:10.1145/839268.839272

Higher-order architectural connectors

Antónia Lopes, Michel Wermelinger, José Luiz Fiadeiro

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Abstract

We develop a notion of higher-order connector towards supporting the systematic construction of architectural connectors for software design. A higher-order connector takes connectors as parameters and allows for services such as security protocols and fault-tolerance mechanisms to be superposed over the interactions that are handled by the connectors passed as actual arguments. The notion is first illustrated over CommUnity, a parallel program design language that we have been using for formalizing aspects of architectural design. A formal, algebraic semantics is then presented which is independent of any Architectural Description Language. Finally, we discuss how our results can impact software design methods and tools.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-104
Number of pages	41
Journal	ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/839268.839272
Publication status	Published - Jan 2003

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Design
Languages
Theory

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Software

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