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Mediating connector patterns for components interoperability

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Romina Spalazzese,

Paola InverardiAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA'10: Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture

Pages 335 - 343

Published: 23 August 2010 Publication History

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A key objective for ubiquitous environments is to enable system interoperability between system's components that are highly heterogeneous. In particular, the challenge is to embed in the system architecture the necessary support to cope with behavioral diversity in order to allow components to coordinate and communicate. In this paper we present the design building blocks for the dynamic and on-the-fly interoperability between heterogeneous components. Specifically, we describe an Architectural Pattern called Mediating Connector, that is the key enabler for communication. In addition, we present a set of Basic Mediator Patterns, that describe the basic mismatches which can occur when components try to interact, and their corresponding solutions.

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Di Marco AInverardi PSpalazzese RLitoiu MMylopoulos J(2013)Synthesizing self-adaptive connectors meeting functional and performance concernsProceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems10.5555/2663546.2663568(133-142)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2663546.2663568
Di Marco AInverardi PSpalazzese RLitoiu MMylopoulos J(2013)Synthesizing self-adaptive connectors meeting functional and performance concernsProceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems10.5555/2487336.2487358(133-142)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2487336.2487358
Hao RMorin BBerre A(2012)A semi-automatic behavioral mediation approach based on models@runtimeProceedings of the 7th Workshop on [email protected]10.1145/2422518.2422529(67-71)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2422518.2422529
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ECSA'10: Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture

August 2010

533 pages

ISBN:3642151132

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Muhammad Ali Babar
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, S. Denmark
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Ian Gorton
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Computational and Information Sciences, Richland, WA

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Published: 23 August 2010

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Di Marco AInverardi PSpalazzese RLitoiu MMylopoulos J(2013)Synthesizing self-adaptive connectors meeting functional and performance concernsProceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems10.5555/2663546.2663568(133-142)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2663546.2663568
Di Marco AInverardi PSpalazzese RLitoiu MMylopoulos J(2013)Synthesizing self-adaptive connectors meeting functional and performance concernsProceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems10.5555/2487336.2487358(133-142)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2487336.2487358
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2422518.2422529
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