The backbone of many software architectures and component integration frameworks is an architectural style that provides a domain-specific design vocabulary and a set of constraints on how that vocabulary is used. Given the increasing number and complexity of architectural styles, designing a sound and appropriate style becomes an important and intellectually challenging activity. Unfortunately...

We introduce Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to deal with the design of reconfigurable software architectures. The key features we promote are: (i) rule-based approach (over graphs); (ii) hierarchical design; (iii) algebraic presentation; and (iv) inductivelydefined reconfigurations. Architectures are suitably modeled by graphs whose edges and nodes respectively represent comp...

During component composition, mismatches may occur on different aspects, such as interaction behaviors between components and features imposed by architectural styles. In this paper, we studied architectural mismatches related to connecting components using a specified architectural style, which implies that the connections supported by components may be incompatible with the connection suppose...

When implementing an application system in a distributed computing environment, several architectural questions arise, such as how and where computing resources are arranged, and how the communication among computing resources are implemented. To simplify the process of making these choices, we have developed an architectural style for distributed processing system. The style classifies product...

This work proposes an architectural style, a pattern, for SDIs. This style provides a tool and a shared vocabulary to help system architects to design these infrastructures, and facilitates the exchange of knowledge about them. This style is defined under the component-andconnector architectural viewtype, extending the client-server and shared-data styles. The style has been created after analy...

Pipe and Filter Architecture Style is a very simple, yet powerful architecture that is also very robust. It is a subtype of Dataflow Architectural Style which is very prominently used architectural style in the industries for software development. This Architectural style has any number of components as filters which transform or filter data, before passing it on using connectors known as pipes...

The idea that we can separate application content from architectural form, or style, is a mainstay of modern software engineering. Architectural styles have themselves been a subject of intensive study. The problem is that we do not yet have an adequate account of the mappings that combine choices of application description independent of style, and of architectural style independent of applica...

The ArchMapper approach allows performing two activities in the software development process efficiently: checking the conformance of the code to the intended architecture as specified by an architectural description, and generating code skeletons and architecture-related configuration files from the architectural description. Both directions exploit information based on the architectural style...