Title :
Abstract interactions and interaction refinement in model-driven design
Author :
Almeida, João Paulo ; Dijkman, Remco ; Pires, Luís Ferreira ; Quartel, Dick ; Van Sinderen, Marten
Author_Institution :
Centre for Telematics & Inf. Technol., Twente Univ., Netherlands
Abstract :
In a model-driven design process the interaction between application parts can be described at various levels of platform-independence. At the lowest level of platform-independence, interaction is realized by interaction mechanisms provided by specific middleware platforms. At higher levels of platform-independence, interaction must be described in such a way that it can be further refined and realized onto a number of different middleware platforms, each with its particular interaction mechanisms and implementation constraints. In this paper, we investigate concepts that support interaction design at various levels of middleware-platform-independence. Also, we propose design operations for interaction refinement. The application of these operations to source designs results in target designs that take into account implementation constraints imposed by platforms, while preserving characteristics prescribed in source designs.
Keywords :
middleware; software architecture; abstract interactions; interaction refinement; middleware-platform-independence; model-driven design; Information technology; Message passing; Middleware; Process design; Telematics; Unified modeling language; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
EDOC Enterprise Computing Conference, 2005 Ninth IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2441-9
DOI :
10.1109/EDOC.2005.2