A Transformational Approach for Component-Based Distributed Architectures

Nowadays information systems are becoming larger, more complex and they are frequently integrating Commercial Off-The-Shelf components. Furthermore, stakeholders are having architecturally significant non-functional requirements that may influence the system architecture at early architecture design stages. As systems are intended to cope with evolving requirements, traceability mechanisms are needed to keep track of design decisions and resulting system architectures. In addition, distributed systems are often deployed on heterogeneous physical infrastructures with many deployment constraints. The present work aims at defining a transformation-oriented design method mixing architecture and requirement models in order to define, build, abstractly deploy and transform component-based information systems.