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MEthods and MOdels for DIstributed Architectures (MEMODIA)

Duration

since 2003

Description

This project aims at defining a transformational process to manage the architectures definition from the requirements to the implementation. From high-level specifications, this process will provide guidelines on how to apply predefined transformations in order to solve problems that would not be taken into account by the architecture (efficiency, deployment, protocols, security, etc).

This project uses a general purpose Architecture Description Language (ADL) that is specified by a partial semantics: the language concepts are mapped to semantic elements (Petri Nets) that specify only a part of their semantics. Although this part is sufficient for assembling the components together into an operational architecture, the semantics of the underlying middleware (TCP, CORBA, Web Services, MPI, etc) can be postponed until a further step, as well as the business related specifications.

Finally, the specification of both the middleware semantics and the physical infrastructure allow the system to check the hypotheses and to adapt the architecture to take into account the middleware characteristics.

Hence, the methodological framework should then enable to assemble components in a heterogeneous environment (distributed/local, protocols, LAN/WAN, etc).

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Staff

Chairperson(s)
Vincent ENGLEBERT Leader 081/725270

Research staff
Fabian GILSON Researcher 081/725256

Staff (finished contracts)

Research staff
Francois VERMAUT Researcher

Publications (7)

Papers

2004
Attribute-Based Refinement of Software Architectures, in Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA4)
Vincent ENGLEBERT, Francois VERMAUT

Conference Proceedings

2011
Rationale, decisions and alternatives traceability for architecture design, in Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume (ECSA '11) - Essen (Germany), pp. 4:1-4:9
Fabian GILSON, Vincent ENGLEBERT
2011
Towards Handling Architecture Design, Variability and Evolution with Model Transformations , in Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS'11) - Namur (Belgium), pp. 39-48
Fabian GILSON, Vincent ENGLEBERT
2010
A Transformational Approach for Component-Based Distributed Architectures, in Proceedings of the MODELS 2010 Doctoral Symposium, ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS'11) - Oslo (Norway), pp. 25-29
Fabian GILSON
2009
Coping with large-scale architecture design and evolution with model transformations, in Pre-proceedings of the 4th Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE'09) - Braga (Portugal)
Fabian GILSON
2008
A large scope transformational approach for distributed architecture design, in Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture (ECSA'08) - Paphos (Cyprus), pp. 330-333
Fabian GILSON, Vincent ENGLEBERT, Raimundas MATULEVICIUS

Research reports

2010
IODASS Method - DAD architectural language & ASR requirement language - Technical Report
Fabian GILSON