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View SchemaThe Reification of Patterns in the Design of Description-Driven Systems
| Authors | J. -M. Le Goff, Z. Kovacs, R. McClatchey, F Estrella |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0105084 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0105084 |
Abstract
To address the issues of reusability and evolvability in designing self- describing systems, this paper proposes a pattern-based, object-oriented, description-driven system architecture. The proposed architecture embodies four pillars - first, the adoption of a multi-layered meta-modeling architecture and reflective meta-level architecture, second, the identification of four data modeling relationships that must be made explicit such that they can be examined and modified dynamically, third, the identification of five design patterns which have emerged from practice and have proved essential in providing reusable building blocks for data management, and fourth, the encoding of the structural properties of the five design patterns by means of one pattern, the Graph pattern. The CRISTAL research project served as the basis onto which the pattern-based meta-object approach has been applied. The proposed architecture allows the realization of reusability and adaptability, and is fundamental in the specification of self-describing data management components.
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"title": "The Reification of Patterns in the Design of Description-Driven Systems",
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