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Analyzing and refining an architectural style

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ZUM '97: The Z Formal Specification Notation (ZUM 1997)

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Architectural styles have been introduced in [1] in order to classify and analyze software architectures. In that paper, Z was used as a notation to specify and study architectural styles, however some problems remained open concerning specification and analysis of their behavioral properties. We use a new operational semantics to describe and analyze an architectural style of distributed systems. We introduce three refinements of a “Message Router” style, useful to describe distributed applications like e-mail or news systems; we also formalize and prove some properties of the style and, henceforth, of derived software architectures.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Italia

    Paolo Ciancarini & Cecilia Mascolo

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Ciancarini, P., Mascolo, C. (1997). Analyzing and refining an architectural style. In: Bowen, J.P., Hinchey, M.G., Till, D. (eds) ZUM '97: The Z Formal Specification Notation. ZUM 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1212. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027297

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