Integrative architecture elicitation for large computer based systems

Tabeling, Peter; Gröne, Bernhard

doi:10.1109/ecbs.2005.46

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“…A mapping between system model and implementation is required in most cases. A description of various mappings on hardware and software implementation can be found in [17].…”

Section: System Structures Vs Software Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual patterns

Gröne

2006

13th Annual IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'06)

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Patterns help transporting knowledge and provide common names for solutions. Architects need a lot of experience to create long-lasting system architectures and should benefit from experiences written down in patterns.The description of architecture patterns and design patterns usually focuses on structures in software. This renders the patterns of limited use for architects who need to structure a system before they choose a structure for the implementing software. Therefore, architects need an additional kind of patterns with an adequate notation.This paper introduces the category of conceptual patterns which focus on system structure in the description of problem and solution. Architects can benefit from the solutions described by conceptual patterns when analyzing systems and in early phases of system design.Extracting the conceptual part of existing patterns is a first step to find conceptual patterns. Usually, a set of patterns will be arranged in a pattern language for a problem domain. This paper shows some examples of conceptual patterns extracted from existing architecture and design patterns.

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“…A mapping between system model and implementation is required in most cases. A description of various mappings on hardware and software implementation can be found in [17].…”

Section: System Structures Vs Software Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptual patterns

Gröne

2006

13th Annual IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'06)

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“…This could lead developers to opt for suboptimal solutions. According to [36] the UML is more oriented towards software design whilst notations like Fundamental Modeling Concepts [33] focus on the conceptual system design, which is lacking in the UML. The Model-Driven Engineering approach also tries to tackle issues not accounted for in the UML in [26].…”

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Supporting UML Sequence Diagrams with a Processor Net Approach

Staines¹

2007

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UML sequence diagrams focus on the interaction between different classes. For distributed real time transaction processing it is possible to end up with complex sequence diagrams, containing messages related to system processes. It is difficult to examine alternative combinations of message passing. A solution is to translate these diagrams into an executable processor net model. This is based on the ‘actor model’, Petri net concepts and higher order net constructs. A case study taken from a flight reservation scenario is introduced and used to create a processor net model. This approach offers various advantages like identifying the main processes, executable model creation, verification, formalization, defining schemas and performance analysis.

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