Software Connectors and Refinement in Family Architectures.

Egyed, Alexander; Mehta, Nikunj R.; Medvidovic, Nenad

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-44542-5_12

Software Connectors and Refinement in Family Architectures.

by Alexander Egyed, Nikunj R. Mehta, Nenad Medvidovic

Abstract:

Product families promote reuse of software artifacts such as architectures, designs and implementations. Product family architectures are difficult to create due to the need to support variations. Traditional approaches emphasize the identification and description of generic components, which makes it difficult to support variations among products. This paper presents an approach to modeling family architectures using generic software connectors that provide bounded ambiguity and support flexible product families. The paper also proposes an approach for transforming a family architecture to a product design through a four-way refinement and evolution process.

Reference:

Alexander Egyed, Nikunj R. Mehta, Nenad Medvidovic, "Software Connectors and Refinement in Family Architectures.", pp. 96-106, 2000.

Bibtex Entry:

@Workshop{DBLP:conf/iwsapf/EgyedMM00,
  Title                    = {Software Connectors and Refinement in Family Architectures.},
  Author                   = {Alexander Egyed and Nikunj R. Mehta and Nenad Medvidovic},
  Booktitle                = {3rd International Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families (IWSAPF), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain},
  Year                     = {2000},

  Abstract                 = {Product families promote reuse of software artifacts such as architectures, designs and implementations. Product family architectures are difficult to create due to the need to support variations. Traditional approaches emphasize the identification and description of generic components, which makes it difficult to support variations among products. This paper presents an approach to modeling family architectures using generic software connectors that provide bounded ambiguity and support flexible product families. The paper also proposes an approach for transforming a family architecture to a product design through a four-way refinement and evolution process.},
  Pages                    = {96-106},

  Doi                      = {10.1007/978-3-540-44542-5_12},
  File                     = {Software_Connectors_and_Refinement_for_Product_Families:Workshops\\IWSAPF3 2000 - Software Connectors and Refinement for Product Families\\Software_Connectors_and_Refinement_for_Product_Families.pdf:PDF},
  Keywords                 = {mde}
}