Amnon H. Eden
Sapience.org
Architecture, Design, Implementation
In Laurie Dillon, Walter Tichy (eds.) Proc. 25th Int'l Conf. Software Engineering—ICSE, Portland, OR, USA, pp. 149–159. Los Alamitos, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press
Publication year: 2003
The distinction between the terms architecture, design, and implementation is largely informal. We provide a formal insight into the distinction using the Intension/Locality Criteria. We demonstrate that, regardless the choice of specification language, architectural styles are intensional and non-local; that design patterns are intensional and local; and that implementations are extensional and local.