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@Article{Allen97TOSEM,
AUTHOR = {Allen, Robert and Garlan, David},
TITLE = {A Formal Basis for Architectural Connection},
YEAR = {1997},
MONTH = {July},
JOURNAL = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
KEY = {Allen},
VOLUME = {6},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {213-249},
PDF = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/able/ftp/wright-tosem97-revision/wright-tosem97-revision.pdf},
PS = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/able/ftp/wright-tosem97-revision/wright-tosem97-revision.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 formal approach to one aspect of architectural design: 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, Model Checking, Software Architecture}
}
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