Correct architecture refinement

Moriconi, Mark; Qian, Xiaolei; Riemenschneider, R.A.

doi:10.1109/32.385972

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“…Therefore, transformations that can be shown to always introduce faithful interpretations can freely be used in the process of implementing a design that has been verified to be secure, without fear that security will be violated. The details of our model-theoretic method for proving that transformations always introduce faithful interpretation links has been described in a series of earlier papers [7,13,15]. Currently, we manually prove that transformations introduce faithful theory interpretations, though we are actively investigating the possibility of using the SRI's PVS verification system to provide automated support for the process.…”

Section: T 1 a If And Only If T 2 µ(A)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure Interoperation of Secure Distributed Databases

Gilham¹,

Riemenschneider²,

Stavridou³

1999

FM’99 — Formal Methods

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Abstract. This paper describes the process of implementing an architecture for secure distributed transaction processing, the process of verifying that it has the desired security properties, and the implementation that resulted. The implementation and verification processes provided us with valuable experience relevant to answering several questions posed by our research on transformational development of architectures. To what extent can implementation-level architectural descriptions be derived from abstract description via application of transformations that preserve a broad class of properties, which includes satisfaction of various access control policies? To what extent can a formal derivation of a non-secure implementation-level distributed transaction processing architecture be reused in derivation of a secure architecture? Are the transformation verification techniques that we have developed sufficient for verifying a collection of transformations adequate for implementing com-plex secure architecture? Do our architecture hierarchies effectively fill the gap between abstract, intellectually manageable models of a complex architecture and the actual implementation? Exploring the answers to these questions resulted in a reference implementation of an architecture for secure distributed transaction processing, and an independently interesting demonstration instance of the reference implementation.

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Section: T 1 a If And Only If T 2 µ(A)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure Interoperation of Secure Distributed Databases

Gilham¹,

Riemenschneider²,

Stavridou³

1999

FM’99 — Formal Methods

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“…[13,26]). Some of these works also recognise the importance of the notion of schematic transformation in stepwise re®nement.…”

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“…Some of these works also recognise the importance of the notion of schematic transformation in stepwise re®nement. For example Moriconi et al [26] provide schema transformations that preserve architectural correctness. Different architecture styles are investigated in this work such as dataow, pipe-®lter and shared-memory styles.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pattern-based refinement schemas for design knowledge transfer

Khriss

Keller²,

Hamid

2000

Knowledge-Based Systems

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The transition from high-level to low-level design is a labour-intensive and time-consuming activity since it involves many iterations over design models to obtain a well-designed system. Moreover, it requires the knowledge and expertise of experienced developers. Design patterns provide proven design knowledge by capturing successful solutions to recurring problems which arise when building software systems. To transfer this design knowledge into detailed design, methodological support is needed. We provide such support with patternbased re®nement schemas.In this paper, we present a pattern-based approach to the correct stepwise re®nement of UML static and dynamic design models by application of re®nement schemas. A re®nement schema is composed of two compartments. The ®rst compartment describes the abstract model of the design, whereas the second compartment shows its corresponding detailed model after transformation and instantiation of one design pattern. We also propose a number of smaller transformations called micro-re®nements whose correctness is proven. These microre®nements can be composed into sequences to produce correct re®nement schemas. Our approach will allow for the construction of intelligent CASE tools that provide automatic support for the selection, management, and application of design patterns for the re®nement of design models. Such tool support will enable effective design knowledge transfer. q

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“…Software architecture is one such domain. At SRI, we have worked on formalizing the process of architecture refinement since 1992 [3,5,9,10,11,14,15,16]. Recently, we have focused on adapting our technology to component-based systems [17].…”

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Automated Dynamic Assembly of Dependable System Architectures

Riemenschneider¹

2004

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Correct architecture refinement

Cited by 249 publications

References 16 publications

Secure Interoperation of Secure Distributed Databases

Secure Interoperation of Secure Distributed Databases

Pattern-based refinement schemas for design knowledge transfer

Automated Dynamic Assembly of Dependable System Architectures

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