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Bigraphical Modelling of Architectural Patterns

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Archery is a language for behavioural modelling of architectural patterns, supporting hierarchical composition and a type discipline. This paper extends Archery to cope with the patterns’ structural dimension through a set of (re-)configuration combinators and constraints that all instances of a pattern must obey. Both types and instances of architectural patterns are semantically represented as bigraphical reactive systems and operations upon them as reaction rules. Such a bigraphical semantics provides a rigorous model for Archery patterns and reduces constraint verification in architectures to a type-checking problem.

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  • Label Transition System
  • Outer Face
  • Architectural Pattern
  • Pattern Instance
  • Parallel Product

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Sanchez, A., Barbosa, L.S., Riesco, D. (2012). Bigraphical Modelling of Architectural Patterns. In: Arbab, F., Ölveczky, P.C. (eds) Formal Aspects of Component Software. FACS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35743-5_19

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