@ARTICLE{adr@eatcs,
  title = {{Style Based Architectural Reconfigurations}},
  author = {{Roberto} {Bruni} and {Alberto} {Lluch Lafuente} and {Ugo} {Montanari} and {Emilio} {Tuosto}},
  journal = {Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)},
  pages = {161--180},
  abstract = {We introduce Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR), an approach to the design of reconfigurable software architectures whose key features are: (i) rule-based approach (over graphs); (ii) hierarchical design; (iii) algebraic presentation; and (iv) inductively-defined reconfigurations. Architectures are modelled by graphs whose edges and nodes represent components and connection ports. Architectures are designed hierarchically by a set of edge replacement rules that fix the architectural style. Depending on their reading, productions allow: (i) top-down design by refinement, (ii) bottom-up typing of actual architectures, and (iii) well-formed composition of architectures. The key idea is to encode style proofs as terms and to exploit such information at run-time for guiding reconfigurations. The main advantages of ADR are that: (i) instead of reasoning on flat architectures, ADR specifications provide a convenient hierarchical structure, by exploiting the architectural classes introduced by the style, (ii) complex reconfiguration schemes can be defined inductively, and (iii) style-preservation is guaranteed.},
  volume = {94},
  year = {2008},
  url = {http://www.di.unipi.it/~bruni/publications/adr.eatcs07.pdf.gz},
  ee = {http://www.eatcs.org/images/bulletin/beatcs94.pdf},
  issn = {0252-9742},
  main = {Y},
  month = {February},
  partner = {LEICESTER, PISA},
  task = {T5.3, WP5},
}