Architectural styles represent composition patterns and constraints at the software architectural level and are targeted at families of systems with shared characteristics. They enable architectural reuse and hence can bring economy to the design of software architecture. Existing approaches support systematic description of style-based software architectures. Our approach, Alfa, focuses on the...

The software architecture of a system has influences against various software characteristics of the system such as efficiency, reliability, maintainability, and etc.. For supporting to design the software architecture, we have developed architectural styles for distributed processing systems. The styles classify the architecture for distributed processing systems into nine categories based on ...

Architectural styles codify commonly used idioms in system structures, organizations, and interactions. Existing classifications of architectural styles provide empirical guidelines for style selection, but fail to systematically characterize styles or reveal their foundations. Moreover, the mapping between architectural styles and their implementations is generally poorly understood. This pape...

Software architects principally leverage successful architectural design practices systematized in terms of architectural styles and tactics. While architectural tactics focus on particular non-functional properties, styles are typical solutions that generally coverage several aspects. The problem is that we do not yet have a formal account of how styles and tactics interact in a way that is su...

Architectural styles and patterns have been studied since the inception of software architecture as a discipline. We generalise architectural styles, patterns and similar concepts by introducing the notion of architectural constraints. An architectural constraint is a vehicle for the reuse of architectural design knowledge and for the improvement of software quality. It may be used for improvin...

Architectural styles represent composition patterns and constraints at the software architectural level and are targeted at families of systems with shared characteristics. They enable architectural reuse and hence can bring economy to architecture-based software development. Existing research on architectural styles provides little guidance for the systematic design and construction of archite...

The essence of architectural styles is component communication. In this paper, we relate architectural styles to adaptors in the GenVoca model of software construction. GenVoca components are refinements that have a wide range of implementations, from binaries to rule-sets of program transformation systems. We explain that architectural styles can (1) be understood as refinements (like other Ge...