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Authors: Alexander Egyed and Nenad
Medvidovic
The
problem of consistently engineering large, complex software systems
of today is often addressed by introducing new, “improved”
models. Examples of such models are architectural, design,
structural, behavioral, and so forth. Each software model is
intended to highlight a particular view of a desired system.
A combination of multiple models is needed to represent and
understand the entire system. Ensuring that the various
models used in development are consistent relative to each other
thus becomes a critical concern. This paper presents an approach
that integrates and ensures the consistency across an architectural
and a number of design models. The goal of this work is to combine
the respective strengths of a powerful, specialized
(architecture-based) modeling approach with a widely used, general
(design-based) approach. We have formally addressed the various
details of our approach, which has allowed us to construct a large
set of supporting tools
to automate the related development activities. We use an example
application throughout the paper to illustrate the concepts.
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