Higher-order architectural connectors

Lopes, Antónia; Wermelinger, Michel and Fiadeiro, José Luiz (2003). Higher-order architectural connectors. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 12(1) pp. 64–104.

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DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/839268.839272
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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Copyright Holders:	2003 ACM
ISSN:	1557-7392
Academic Unit/Department:	Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Computing & Communications
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
Item ID:	1166
Depositing User:	Michel Wermelinger
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2006
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2014 22:38
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/1166
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