Connectors for mobile programs

Wermelinger, Michel and Fiadeiro, José Luiz (1998). Connectors for mobile programs. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24(5) pp. 331–341.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/32.685257

Abstract

Software architecture has put forward the concept of connector to express complex relationships between system components, thus facilitating the separation of coordination from computation. This separation is especially important in mobile computing due to the dynamic nature of the interactions among participating processes. We present connector patterns, inspired in Mobile UNITY, that describe three basic kinds of transient interactions: action inhibition, action synchronisation, and message passing. The connectors are given in COMMUNITY, a UNITY-like program design language which has a semantics in category theory. We show how the categorical framework can be used for applying the proposed connectors to specific components and how the resulting architecture can be visualized by a diagram showing the components and the connectors.

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• Item ORO ID
• 41187
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0098-5589
• Keywords
• Software Architecture; connectors; transient interactions; UNITY
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
• Copyright Holders
• © 1998 IEEE
• Depositing User
• Michel Wermelinger