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Sensoria Bibliography Site Modelling dynamic software architectures using typed graph grammars
Roberto Bruni, Antonio Bucchiarone, Stefania Gnesi, Hernán Melgratti
abstract:
Several recent research efforts have focused on the dynamic aspects of
software architectures providing suitable models and techniques for
handling the run-time modification of the structure of a system. A
large number of heterogeneous proposals for addressing dynamic
architectures at many different levels of abstraction have been
provided, such as programmable, ad-hoc, self-healing and
self-repairing among others. It is then important to have a clear
picture of the relations among these proposals by formulating them
into a uniform framework and contrasting the different verification
aspects that can be reasonably addressed by each proposal.
Our work is a contribution in this line. In
particular, we map several notions of dynamicity into the same formal
framework in order to distill the
similarities and differences among them. As a result we explain
different styles of architectural dynamisms in
term of graph grammars and get some better insights on the kinds of
formal properties that can be naturally associated to such different
specification styles. We take a simple automotive scenario as a
running example to illustrate main ideas.
