Alfa: Publications

An Assembly Language for Software Architecture

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Conference papers:

Mehta, N. R. and Medvidovic, N. Composing Architectural Styles From Architectural Primitives. Proceedings of the Joint 10th European Software Engineering Conference and the 11th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, September 2003.
Mehta, N. R., Medvidovic, N., and Phadke, S. Towards A Taxonomy Of Software Connectors. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.

Workshop papers:

Mehta, N. R., Soma, R., and Medvidovic, N. Style-Based Software Architectures as Domain-Specific Models, To Appear in Workshop on Developments in Software Engineering Environments, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.

Manuscripts:

Mehta, N. R. and Medvidovic, N. Composition of Style-Based Software Architectures from Architectural Primitives, March 2004.
Mehta, N. R. and Medvidovic, N. Toward Composition of Style Conformant Software Architectures, January 2004.
Mehta, N. R. and Medvidovic, N. Alfa: A framework for composing software architectures from architectural primitives, November 2003.
Mehta, N. R. and Medvidovic, N. Concise Composition Of Architectural Styles From Architectural Primtiives, October 2003.
Mehta, N. R., Sirjani, M., and Arbab, F. Effectively Modeling Architectural Assemblies Using Constraint Automata, September 2003.

This material is partly based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CCR-9985441. Effort also sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Rome Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, USAF under agreement numbers F30602-99-C-0174 and F30602-00-2-0615. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Rome Laboratory or the U.S. Government. Effort also sponsored in part by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive and Armaments Command, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Xerox Corporation.