relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/151/
title: Hierarchical design rewriting with Maude
creator: Bruni, Roberto
creator: Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto
creator: Montanari, Ugo
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: Architectural Design Rewriting (ADR) is a rule-based approach for the design of dynamic software architectures. The key features that make ADR a suitable and expressive framework are the algebraic presentation and the use of conditional rewrite rules. These features enable, e.g. hierarchical (top-down, bottom-up or composition-based) design and inductively-defined reconfigurations. The contribution of this paper is twofold: we define Hierarchical Design Rewriting (HDR) and present our prototypical tool support. HDR is a flavour of ADR that exploits the concept of hierarchical graph to deal with system specifications combining both symbolic and interpreted parts. Our prototypical implementation is based on Maude and its presentation serves several purposes. First, we show that HDR is not only a well-founded formal approach but also a tool-supported framework for the design and analysis of software architectures. Second, our illustration tailored to a particular algebra of designs and a particular scenario traces a general methodology for the reuse and exploitation of ADR concepts in other scenarios.    
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2009
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nd
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/151/1/Bruni_lluch-lafuente-montanari.pdf
identifier:   Bruni, Roberto and Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto and Montanari, Ugo  Hierarchical design rewriting with Maude.  Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 238 (3).  pp. 45-62.  ISSN 1571-0661      (2009)  
relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B75H1-4WJB479-4/2/0433f4323a2a553bd49d0575856b572a
relation: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.05.012