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Highly Analysable, Reusable, and Realisable Architectural Designs with XCD

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Computer Applications for Software Engineering, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity

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Connector-Centric Design (XcD) is a new approach to specifying software architectures. XcD views complex connectors as highly significant in architectural designs, as it is the complex connectors that non-functional quality properties in systems can emanate from. So, XcD promotes in designs a clean separation of connectors (interaction behaviours) from components (functional behaviours). Designers can then specify connectors in detail explicitly thus easing the analysis of system designs for quality properties. Furthermore, XcD separates control behaviour from connectors as control strategies. Architectural designs in XcD thus become highly modular with re-usable components, connectors, and control strategies (representing design solutions for quality properties). The end result is the eased architectural experimentation with different design solutions by re-using components/connectors and formal analysis of these solutions to find out the optimal ones.

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    Mert Ozkaya & Christos Kloukinas

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  1. GVSA and University of Tasmania, 20 Virginia Court, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. GECAD and ISEP, 4099-002, Porto, Portugal

    Carlos Ramos

  3. Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea

    Haeng-kon Kim

  4. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Akingbehin Kiumi

  5. Lakehead University, ATAC 5013, 955 Oliver Road, P7B 5E1, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

    Sabah Mohammed

  6. University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc., Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

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Ozkaya, M., Kloukinas, C. (2012). Highly Analysable, Reusable, and Realisable Architectural Designs with XCD. In: Kim, Th., Ramos, C., Kim, Hk., Kiumi, A., Mohammed, S., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Computer Applications for Software Engineering, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35267-6_10

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