Constructing software systems by composing prefabricated components is always an intuitive and attractive vision for software development. For many years, de-compositional/compositional mechanisms and semantics specification constructs have been introduced to make the design and composition of large systems tractable, reusable and effective. Recently, in the reuse-related research activities, r...

Reuse of off-the-shelf (OTS) components is becoming increasingly important in most software development projects. Despite such importance, reuse of OTS components at the software architectural level has many challenges before a component-based application (CBA) can successfully be developed. This paper presents a methodology for matching the software developer’s needs against a repository of ar...

The integrity of complex software systems built from existing components is becoming more dependent on the integrity of the mechanisms used to interconnect these components, in particular, on the ability of these mechanisms to cope with architectural mismatches that might exist between components. This paper is based on the assumption that architectural mismatches always exist in such systems, ...

The integrity of complex software systems built from existing components is becoming more dependent on the integrity of the mechanisms used to interconnect these components and, in particular, on the ability of these mechanisms to cope with architectural mismatches that might exist between components. There is a need to detect and handle (i.e. to tolerate) architectural mismatches during runtim...

Subject of this paper is the derivation of architectural views assigning a building block character and semantic status to components, connections and systems. At first, the concept of architecture types will be introduced. Next, architectural frames are derived as common development frameworks for application systems. The functional grouping of components and connections in architectural frame...

When constructing software systems from existing components, the engineer is faced with the problem of potential conflicts in the interactions among the components. Of particular difficulty is guaranteeing compatibility in the dynamic interaction behavior. Using an architectural description of the system and its intended components, the engineer can reason about the interactions early and at a ...

When constructing software systems from existing components, the engineer is faced with the problem of potential con icts in the interactions among the components. Of particular di culty is guaranteeing compatibility in the dynamic interaction behavior. Using an architectural description of the system and its intended components, the engineer can reason about the interactions early and at a hig...

Software architectural design is essential for complex distributed applications. Architectural specifications need to define the key aspects of the application, including its intended functions, interfaces, interoperability requirements, distributability, scalability, extensibility, target platforms and networks, and required middleware services. In this paper, we present an architectural exten...