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Monarch: Model-Based Development of Software Architectures

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Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2010)

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Abstract

In recent work we showed that it is possible to separate, and combine formal representations of, application properties and architectural styles, respectively. We do this by defining style-specific mappings from style-independent application models to architectural models in given styles. This paper shows that this separation of concerns supports a model-based development and tools approach to architectural-style-independent application modeling, and architecture synthesis with style as a separate design variable. In support of these claims, we present a proof-of-concept tool, Monarch, and illustrate its use.

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    Hamid Bagheri & Kevin Sullivan

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  1. Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, K1S 5BG, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Dorina C. Petriu

  2. Flight Software Systems Engineering and Srchitecture Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, 91109, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Nicolas Rouquette

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    Øystein Haugen

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Bagheri, H., Sullivan, K. (2010). Monarch: Model-Based Development of Software Architectures. In: Petriu, D.C., Rouquette, N., Haugen, Ø. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16129-2_27

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