@InProceedings{Antoun2005a,
      AUTHOR = {Abi-Antoun, Marwan and Aldrich, Jonathan and Garlan, David and Schmerl, Bradley and Nahas, Nagi and Tseng, Tony},
      TITLE = {Improving System Dependability by Enforcing Architectural Intent},
      YEAR = {2005},
      MONTH = {May},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2005)},
      ADDRESS = {St. Louis, MS},
      PDF = {http://acme.able.cs.cmu.edu/pubs/uploads/pdf/WADS05-2.pdf},
      ABSTRACT = {Developing dependable software systems requires enforcing conformance between architecture and implementation during software development and evolution. We address this problem with a multi-pronged approach: (a) automated refinement of a component-and-connector (C&C) architectural view into an initial implementation, (b) enforcement of architectural structure at the programming language level, (c) automated abstraction of a C&C view from an implementation, and (d) semi-automated incremental synchronization between the architectural and the implementation C&C views. We use an Architecture Description Language (ADL), Acme, to describe the architecture, and ArchJava, an implementation language which embeds a C&C architecture specification within Java implementation code. Although both Acme and ArchJava specify C&C views, a number of structural differences may arise. Our approach can detect structural differences which correspond directly to implementation-level violations of the well thoughtout architectural intent. Furthermore, supplementing the C&C view extracted from the implementation with architectural types and styles can uncover additional violations. },
      KEYWORDS = {Acme, ArchJava, Software Architecture}
}