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Contract Aware Components, 10 years after
The notion of contract aware components has been published roughly ten years
ago and is now becoming mainstream in several fields where the usage of
software components is seen as critical. The goal of this paper is to survey
domains such as Embedded Systems or Service Oriented Architecture where the
notion of contract aware components has been influential. For each of these
domains we briefly describe what has been done with this idea and we discuss
the remaining challenges.Comment: In Proceedings WCSI 2010, arXiv:1010.233
Can Component/Service-Based Systems Be Proved Correct?
Component-oriented and service-oriented approaches have gained a strong
enthusiasm in industries and academia with a particular interest for
service-oriented approaches. A component is a software entity with given
functionalities, made available by a provider, and used to build other
application within which it is integrated. The service concept and its use in
web-based application development have a huge impact on reuse practices.
Accordingly a considerable part of software architectures is influenced; these
architectures are moving towards service-oriented architectures. Therefore
applications (re)use services that are available elsewhere and many
applications interact, without knowing each other, using services available via
service servers and their published interfaces and functionalities. Industries
propose, through various consortium, languages, technologies and standards.
More academic works are also undertaken concerning semantics and formalisation
of components and service-based systems. We consider here both streams of works
in order to raise research concerns that will help in building quality
software. Are there new challenging problems with respect to service-based
software construction? Besides, what are the links and the advances compared to
distributed systems?Comment: 16 page
Abstract State Machines 1988-1998: Commented ASM Bibliography
An annotated bibliography of papers which deal with or use Abstract State
Machines (ASMs), as of January 1998.Comment: Also maintained as a BibTeX file at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/gasm
Pattern Reification as the Basis for Description-Driven Systems
One of the main factors driving object-oriented software development for
information systems is the requirement for systems to be tolerant to change. To
address this issue in designing systems, this paper proposes a pattern-based,
object-oriented, description-driven system (DDS) architecture as an extension
to the standard UML four-layer meta-model. A DDS architecture is proposed in
which aspects of both static and dynamic systems behavior can be captured via
descriptive models and meta-models. The proposed architecture embodies four
main elements - firstly, the adoption of a multi-layered meta-modeling
architecture and reflective meta-level architecture, secondly the
identification of four data modeling relationships that can be made explicit
such that they can be modified dynamically, thirdly the identification of five
design patterns which have emerged from practice and have proved essential in
providing reusable building blocks for data management, and fourthly the
encoding of the structural properties of the five design patterns by means of
one fundamental pattern, the Graph pattern. A practical example of this
philosophy, the CRISTAL project, is used to demonstrate the use of
description-driven data objects to handle system evolution.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
Pattern-based software architecture for service-oriented software systems
Service-oriented architecture is a recent conceptual framework for service-oriented software platforms. Architectures are of great importance for the evolution of
software systems. We present a modelling and transformation technique for service-centric distributed software systems. Architectural configurations, expressed through hierarchical architectural patterns, form the core of a specification and transformation technique. Patterns on different levels of abstraction form transformation invariants that structure and constrain the transformation
process. We explore the role that patterns can play in architecture transformations in terms of functional properties, but also non-functional quality aspects
A Middleware Framework for Constraint-Based Deployment and Autonomic Management of Distributed Applications
We propose a middleware framework for deployment and subsequent autonomic
management of component-based distributed applications. An initial deployment
goal is specified using a declarative constraint language, expressing
constraints over aspects such as component-host mappings and component
interconnection topology. A constraint solver is used to find a configuration
that satisfies the goal, and the configuration is deployed automatically. The
deployed application is instrumented to allow subsequent autonomic management.
If, during execution, the manager detects that the original goal is no longer
being met, the satisfy/deploy process can be repeated automatically in order to
generate a revised deployment that does meet the goal.Comment: Submitted to Middleware 0
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