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Database-centric architecture
About: Database-centric architecture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1799 publications have been published within this topic receiving 48836 citations.
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TL;DR: An Eclipse plug-in called MARPLE (Metrics and Architecture Reconstruction Plug-in for Eclipse), which supports both the detection of design patterns and software architecture reconstruction activities through the use of basic elements and metrics that are mechanically extracted from the source code.
81 citations
TL;DR: The syntax provides a notion of abstraction corresponding to the concept of a subsystem, and exploits this notion in a general mechanism for pattern matching over architectures, and formalized using set theory.
Abstract: Introduces a general, extensible diagrammatic syntax for expressing software architectures based on typed nodes and connections and formalized using set theory. The syntax provides a notion of abstraction corresponding to the concept of a subsystem, and exploits this notion in a general mechanism for pattern matching over architectures. We demonstrate these ideas using a small example architecture language with a limited number of types of nodes and connectors, and a small taxonomy of architectures characterized as sets of patterns in the language. >
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TL;DR: The methods developed for the classification of information on the World-Wide-Web are applied to study the organization of Open Source programs in an attempt to establish the statistical laws governing software architecture.
Abstract: Starting from the pioneering works on software architecture precious guidelines have emerged to indicate how computer programs should be organized. For example the "separation of concerns" suggests to split a program into modules that overlap in functionality as little as possible. However these recommendations are mainly conceptual and are thus hard to express in a quantitative form. Hence software architecture relies on the individual experience and skill of the designers rather than on quantitative laws. In this article I apply the methods developed for the classification of information on the World-Wide-Web to study the organization of Open Source programs in an attempt to establish the statistical laws governing software architecture.
79 citations
20 Jun 2011
TL;DR: This work presents an approach which helps systematically design reference architectures either from scratch, or based on existing architecture artifacts, and illustrates how this approach could be applied to the design of two existing reference architectures found in literature.
Abstract: A reference architecture describes core elements of the software architecture for systems that stem from the same domain. A reference architecture ensures interoperability of systems through standardization. It also facilitates the instantiation of new concrete architectures. However, we currently lack procedures for systematically designing reference architectures that are empirically-grounded. Being empirically-grounded would increase the validity and reusability of a reference architecture. We therefore present an approach which helps systematically design reference architectures. Our approach consists of six steps performed by the software architect and domain experts. It helps design reference architectures either from scratch, or based on existing architecture artifacts. We also illustrate how our approach could be applied to the design of two existing reference architectures found in literature.
78 citations
01 Dec 1994
TL;DR: A criterion for the relative correctness of an architecture is presented, and conditions for architecture composition are defined which ensure that the correctness of a composite architecture follows from the accuracy of its parts.
Abstract: The design of a large system typically involves the development of a hierarchy of different but related architectures A criterion for the relative correctness of an architecture is presented, and conditions for architecture composition are defined which ensure that the correctness of a composite architecture follows from the correctness of its parts Both the criterion and the composition requirements reflect special considerations from the domain of software architectureThe main points are illustrated by means of familiar architecture for a compiler A proof of the relative correctness of two different compiler architectures shows how to decompose a proof into generic properties, which are proved once for every pair of architectural styles, and instance-level properties, which must be proved for every architecture
78 citations