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Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures: An Evaluation of Approaches for Preventing Architectural Violations
Software architecture, Architectural violation, Dynamic architecture, Runtime
re-configuration
Dynamic aspects of behavior of software systems in dynamically reconfigurable
runtime architectures can result in significant architectural violations during
runtime. In such cases, a systems architecture evolves during the runtime
according to the actual state of the systems environment and consequently runtime
reconfigurations may eventually lead to incorrect architecture configurations
that were not considered during the systems design phases. These architectural
violations are known as architectural erosion or architectural drift and they
contribute to an increasing brittleness of the system, or a lack of its coherence
and clarity of its form. This chapter will describe and compare possible measures
to prevent architectural violations in dynamic service and component models. The
aim of this chapter is to evaluate the applicability of those measures in
combination with advanced features of reconfigurable runtime architectures such
as ad hoc reconfiguration, service or component mobility, composition hierarchy
preservation, and architectural aspects.
@inbook{BUT111506,
author="Marek {Rychlý}",
title="Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures: An Evaluation of Approaches for Preventing Architectural Violations",
booktitle="Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing (2 Volumes)",
year="2014",
publisher="IGI Global",
address="Hershey, Pennsylvania",
series="Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing",
pages="26--43",
doi="10.4018/978-1-4666-6178-3.ch002",
isbn="978-1-4666-6178-3",
url="http://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-architectural-trends-service/102201"
}