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@TechReport{Allen94ConnectorsTR, AUTHOR = {Allen, Robert and Garlan, David}, TITLE = {Formal Connectors}, YEAR = {1994}, MONTH = {March}, KEY = {Allen}, NUMBER = {CMU-CS-94-115}, INSTITUTION = {Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science}, PS = {http://reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu/usr/anon/1994/CMU-CS-94-115.ps}, ABSTRACT = {As software systems become more complex the overall system structure -- or software architecture -- becomes a central design problem. An important step towards an engineering discipline of software is a formal basis for describing and analyzing these designs. In this paper we present a theory for one aspect of architectural description: the interactions between components. The key idea is to define architectural connectors as explicit semantic entities. These are specified as a collection of protocols that characterize each of the participant roles in an interaction and how these roles interact. We illustrate how this scheme can be used to define a variety of common architectural connectors. We further provide a formal semantics and show how this leads to a system in which architectural compatibility can be checked in a way analogous to type checking in programming languages.}, KEYWORDS = {Formal Methods, Software Architecture} }