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The transformation-driven architecture for interactive systems

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We propose new software architecture for interactive systems (systems with interacting components). This architecture, called the Transformation-Driven Architecture, TDA, uses certain ideas of the Model-Driven Architecture, MDA. However, unlike MDA, which uses models and model transformations at software development time, TDA uses them at runtime. To describe the dynamics of the system as well as interaction between the components, TDA uses special objects called events and commands.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, bulv. Raina 29, Riga, LV-1459, Latvia

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  2. University of Latvia, bulv. Raina 19, Riga, LV-1586, Latvia

    S. Kozlovics & J. Barzdins

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Original Russian Text © S. Kozlovics, J. Barzdins, 2013, published in Avtomatika i Vychislitel’naya Tekhnika, 2013, No. 1, pp. 39–52.

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Kozlovics, S., Barzdins, J. The transformation-driven architecture for interactive systems. Aut. Control Comp. Sci. 47, 28–37 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411613010057

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