Ta'id Holmes
Uwe Zdun
ABSTRACT
In the process of software-intensive systems engineering, architectures need to be designed that are compliant to the requirements. For this, architects need to examine those requirements with regard to their architectural impact. Accessing and interpreting the requirements is however not always possible, for instance if custom requirements are yet unknown at the time when the architecture is modeled. Ideally, architectural knowledge as derived from custom requirements could be imposed upon architecture models. This paper proposes a novel concept for automated refactoring of architecture models in order to meet such requirements by formalizing architectural knowledge using model verification and model transformations. Industrial application within a telecommunications service provider is demonstrated in the domain of cloud application orchestration: service providers are enabled to autonomously customize solutions predefined by vendors according to their own internal requirements.
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- Refactoring Architecture Models for Compliance with Custom Requirements
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