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A Large Scope Transformational Approach for Distributed Architecture Design

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Many Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) appeared in order to model complex software solutions. Unfortunately, current modeling approaches do not take into account infrastructure related constraints and do not add non-functional requirements to architecture constructs. This paper describes a transformation-oriented method to design distributed software architectures. Our method is based on an ADL named IODASS. It uses semantically extensible building blocks with qualitative attributes that specify non-functional or infrastructure related requirements.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science PRECISE Research Center in Information Systems Engineering, University of Namur,  

    Fabian Gilson, Vincent Englebert & Raimundas Matulevičius

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Gilson, F., Englebert, V., Matulevičius, R. (2008). A Large Scope Transformational Approach for Distributed Architecture Design. In: Morrison, R., Balasubramaniam, D., Falkner, K. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88030-1_30

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