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 Bernhard Rumpe
Refinement of Pipe-and-Filter Architectures

FM'99 -- Formal Methods, Proceedings of the World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing System. LNCS 1708, pages 96-115

Author(s): Jan Philipps, Bernhard Rumpe
Year: 1999
Publisher: Springer
Editor: J. M. Wing, J. Woodcock, J. Davies
Abstract:Software and hardware architectures are prone to modifications. We demonstrate how a mathematically founded powerful refinement calculus for a class of architectures, namely pipe and filter architectures, can be used to modify a system in a provably correct way. The calculus consists of basic rules to add and to remove filters (components) and pipes (channels) to a system. A networking example demonstrates some of the features of our calculus. The calculus is simple, flexible and compositional. Thus it allows us to build more complex and specific rules that e.g. embed models of existing architectures or define design patterns as transformation rules.

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@inproceedings{PR99, author = {Jan Philipps and Bernhard Rumpe}, title = {Refinement of Pipe-and-Filter Architectures}, booktitle = {FM'99 -- Formal Methods, Proceedings of the World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing System. LNCS 1708, pages 96-115}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Springer}, editor = {J. M. Wing and J. Woodcock and J. Davies} }
Bernhard Rumpe