Research on a coordination model for architecture reuse

At software design stage, architecture reuse may significantly improve the quality and efficiency of software design. However this kind of reuse is always a very difficult in the realm of software engineer because of the lack of information and techniques, which support the process of architecture reuse. So this paper proposes CM4AR-coordination model for architecture reuse which provides the support for reusing software architecture and its constituents at design time. CM4AR includes the meta-level, base-level and coordinator. The meta-level of CM4AR models the architectural meta information. The base level of CM4AR models the architectural information. And the coordinator is used to coordinate interaction between the two levels of CM4AR. In this paper the construction of CM4AR and coordination process under support of CM4AR are illustrated in details.