A key aspect of the design of any software system is
its architecture. An architecture description provides a formal model
of the architecture in terms of components and connectors and how
they are composed together. COSA (Component-Object based
Software Structures), is based on object-oriented modeling and
component-based modeling. The model improves the reusability by
increasing extensibility, evolvability, and compositionality of the
software systems. This paper presents the COSA modelling tool
which help architects the possibility to verify the structural coherence
of a given system and to validate its semantics with COSA approach.
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User Guide. Addison-Wesley Professional, Reading, Massachusetts,
(1998).
[2] P. Clements, F. Bachmann, L. Bass, D. Garlan, J. Ivers, R. Little, , R.
Nord, J. Stafford, Documenting Software Architectures: Views and
Beyond. Boston, MA, Addison-Wesley, (2002)
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connectors for component based software architecture. In: Proceedings
of the 11th IEEE Conference Engineering of Computer Based Systems,
Czech Republic (May 2004)
[4] I. Jacobson, Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven
Approach. Addison Wesley Professional. (1992).
[5] OMG, Unified Modeling Language Specification V.1.4.
http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/01-09-67.pdf , Sept 2001.
[6] Alti A., Khammaci T., Smeda A., Representing and Formally Modeling
COSA software architecture with UML 2.0 profile. IRECOS Review,
2007, 2(1): 30-37.
[7] Garlan D., Monroe R.T., and While D., Acme: Architectural Description
of Component-Based Systems. G.T. Leavens and M. Sitaraman, Eds,
Cambridge University, 2000.
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Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages. IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 26. N┬░. 1. 2-57, 2000.
[9] Amirat A., Oussalah M., "Enhanced Connectors to Support Hierarchical
Dependencies in Software Architecture", 5th NOTERE-08 International
Conference on New Technologies in Distributed Systems, Lyon, France,
Voluome.1, pp. 252-261, June 23-27, 2008.
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and the Eclipse Modeling Framework, I. Redbooks, 2004.
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of Component-Based Systems. G.T. Leavens and M. Sitaraman, Eds,
Cambridge University, 2000.
[12] Luckham D.C., Augustin L.M., "Specification and Analysis of System
architecture using Rapide," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
1995, 21(1): pp. 336 - 355.
[13] Smeda A., Oussalah M., and Khammaci T., "A Multi-Paradigm
Approach to Describe Complex Software System", WSEAS
Transactions on Computers, Issue 4, Vol., 3, pp. 936-941, October 2004.
[14] Rational Software Modeler, http://www-
128.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rswm
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Dependencies in Software Architecture", 5th NOTERE-08 International
Conference on New Technologies in Distributed Systems, Lyon, France,
Voluome.1, pp. 252-261, June 23-27, 2008.
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its architecture. An architecture description provides a formal model
of the architecture in terms of components and connectors and how
they are composed together. COSA (Component-Object based
Software Structures), is based on object-oriented modeling and
component-based modeling. The model improves the reusability by
increasing extensibility, evolvability, and compositionality of the
software systems. This paper presents the COSA modelling tool
which help architects the possibility to verify the structural coherence
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