Title :
The Role of Dependency Links in Ensuring Architectural View Consistency
Author :
Radjenovic, Alek ; Paige, Richard F.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of York, York
Abstract :
Modern systems modelling languages frequently support the use of multiple views in order to provide flexible, extensible, and rich mechanisms for capturing system characteristics. Architectural description languages (ADLs) often provide many useful capabilities but fail to provide support for ensuring view consistency simply because they present a single view of the system. An ADL used for building dependable systems must provide multiple views. For these kinds of systems, ensuring view consistency is critical so as to provide guarantees about the system as a whole. In this paper, we outline an architectural modelling language, AIM, which supports multiple views, but we focus on its first-class support for dependency links, which are used to ensure view consistency. We illustrate the principles on examples from a real engine control system.
Keywords :
software architecture; specification languages; architectural description language; architectural multiple view consistency; dependable system modelling language; dependency link; engine control system; Architecture description languages; Buildings; Certification; Computer science; Control system synthesis; Engineering management; Engines; Protocols; Real time systems; Software architecture; architecture description languages; dependency links; view consistency;
Conference_Titel :
Software Architecture, 2008. WICSA 2008. Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3092-5
DOI :
10.1109/WICSA.2008.30