Software Architecture Styles as Graph Grammars

Abstract

We present a formalism for the definition of software architectures in terms of graphs. Nodes represent the individual agents and edges define their interconnection. Individual agents can communicate only along the links specified by the architecture. The dynamic evolution of the overall architecture is defined independently by a 'coordinator'. An architecture style is a class of architectures characterised by a graph grammar. The rules of the coordinator are statically checked to ensure that they preserve the constraints imposed by the architecture style.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Metayer:FSE96,
  author    = {Daniel Le M{\'{e}}tayer},
  title     = {Software Architecture Styles as Graph Grammars},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {15--23},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {1996},
}

Software Architecture Styles as Graph Grammars

Abstract

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