Guiding architectural restructuring through architectural styles

17th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECBS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-78

  Tamzalit, Dalila ^a   Mens, Tom ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Architectural style; Evolution pattern; Restructuring; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION; ARCHITECTURAL STYLE; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FORMALISATION; GRAPH TRANSFORMATION; HIGH LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPH THEORY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77953114678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECBS.2010.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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