A Quality of Service Framework for Object-Oriented Architectures
Bran Selić · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 1998
Most development and system specification languages do not provide facilities for a formal and complete declaration of the expected hardware and software environment for which a system is targeted. This type of information can be used to determine whether a software specification is compatible with a particular computing environment. In this paper we describe an approach, based on a generic "quality of service" framework, that provides such a facility for a broad category of object-oriented architectural definition languages. A formal model of this facility is also provided, including rules for determining compatibility between different computing environments.