A syntactic theory of software architecture Export

@article{citeulike:805247, abstract = {Introduces a general, extensible diagrammatic syntax for expressing software architectures based on typed nodes and connections and formalized using set theory. The syntax provides a notion of abstraction corresponding to the concept of a subsystem, and exploits this notion in a general mechanism for pattern matching over architectures. We demonstrate these ideas using a small example architecture language with a limited number of types of nodes and connectors, and a small taxonomy of architectures characterized as sets of patterns in the language}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Dean, T. R. and Cordy, J. R.}, booktitle = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {805247}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=776835}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.385969}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=385969}, doi = {10.1109/32.385969}, journal = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {architecture, description, software-architecture, software-engineering}, number = {4}, pages = {302--313}, posted-at = {2009-07-24 19:49:58}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {A syntactic theory of software architecture}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.385969}, volume = {21}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:805247 L3 - citeulike-article-id:805247 N2 - Introduces a general, extensible diagrammatic syntax for expressing software architectures based on typed nodes and connections and formalized using set theory. The syntax provides a notion of abstraction corresponding to the concept of a subsystem, and exploits this notion in a general mechanism for pattern matching over architectures. We demonstrate these ideas using a small example architecture language with a limited number of types of nodes and connectors, and a small taxonomy of architectures characterized as sets of patterns in the language IS - 4 JF - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 313 TI - A syntactic theory of software architecture PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 21 T2 - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on SP - 302 KW - architecture KW - description KW - software-architecture KW - software-engineering AU - Dean, TR AU - Cordy, JR PY - 1995/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/32.385969 ER -