Modeling and Analysis of Architectural Styles Based on Graph Transformation∗ A Case Study on Service-Oriented Architectures
Luciano Baresi, Reiko Heckel, Sebastian Thöne · 2003
Modern architectural styles, like the service-oriented style underlying web services, are highly dynamic. This complicates not only their practical application, but also the modeling and prediction of their behavior. To account for this problem, we propose to model architectures as graphs, represented as instances of UML class diagrams, and to describe their reconfigurations by graph transformation rules. Based on a sample model for service-oriented architectures, we discuss what are interesting properties to be analyzed and how such analysis could be performed.