This paper presents an overview of a neutral reference architecture for integrating distributed manufacturing simulation systems with each other, with other manufacturing software applications, and with manufacturing data repositories. Other manufacturing software applications include, but are not limited to systems used to: 1) design products, 2) specify processes, 3) engineer manufacturing sy...

This paper presents an overview of a neutral reference architecture for integrating distributed manufacturing simulation systems with each other, with other manufacturing software applications, and with manufacturing data repositories. Other manufacturing software applications include, but are not limited to, systems used to: 1) design products, 2) specify processes, 3) engineer manufacturing s...

Software architecture is an emerging new area. It encompasses the traditional area of software design with an emphasis on the design of distributed systems. Based on the past failures of complex design techniques to gain wide spread acceptance, software architecture languages must demonstrate that they provide significant value. A primary benefit will be the early detection of software faults. ...

Software integration in distributed architecture plays an important role to improve software quality. Engineers often face challenges coming from connectors. Especially, design of connectors in a distributed system encounters more design issues such as: i) how to fulfil the functional and quality requirements of connectors in distributed system; ii) how do multiple technologies combine together...

Software architecture evaluation is an effective means of addressing quality related issues early in the software development lifecycle. Scenario-based approaches to evaluate architecture usually involve a large number of stakeholders, who need to be collocated for faceto-face evaluation meetings. Collocating a large number of stakeholders is an expensive and time-consuming exercise, which may ...

Component-based software development would allow application software be largely constructed, rather than programmed. This approach would dramatically improve the productivity of software development. Although there are many reusable software packages available, the integration of the chosen parts remains to be a very difficult problem because there are many barriers of integration, including p...

A Software Architecture is the overall structure of a system in terms of its constituent components and their interconnections. In this paper, we describe work to associate behavioural specifications with the components of a distributed software architecture and an approach to analysing the behaviour of systems composed from these components. The approach is based on the use of Labelled Transit...

The paper addresses the problem of structuring and managing large distributed systems constructed from many distributed objects. Specifically, the paper proposes a component model which can be used to compose objects into manageable entities. Components are specified using Darwin, an architecture description language developed by the authors. A mapping of distributed objects into Darwin compone...

This paper presents a general xml-based distributed software architecture with the aim of accessing and sharing resources in an opened client/server environment. The paper is organized as follows: First, we introduce the idea of a “General Distributed Software Architecture”. Second, we describe the general framework in which this architecture is used. Third, we describe the process of informati...

The extraction of high-level architectural information from existing software systems, or architecture recovery, is a recent research area. This paper presents X-RAY, an approach for recovering distributed software architectures. X-RAY builds on previous work on architecture recovery and more traditional reverse engineering techniques, as well as on notations for architecture description. The k...