Coexistence of Object-Oriented Modeling and Architectural Description

Khammaci, Tahar; Smeda, Adel; Oussalah, Mourad

doi:10.1142/9789812775245_0005

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“…The software architectures are commonly categorized in: "Component-Based Software Architecture", described with ADL "Architecture Languages Description" (Clements et al, 2002) (Medvidovic et al, 2000) and "Object-Based Software Architecture" (Khammaci et al, 2005) described using UML (Unified Modeling Language) (Booch et al, 1998) (Jacobson, 1992) (OMG, 2001).…”

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UML-profile for multimedia software architectures

Derdour

Zine

Roose³

et al. 2010

IJMIS

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Multimedia technology is increasingly being used to create reliable and effective communication environments. However, the design of multimedia applications is currently driven more by intuition than by empirically or theoretically derived design guidelines. In a multimedia application, the software architecture is defined as a set of components manipulating various multimedia data types with specific constraints that we must take into consideration at the architectural design. For instance, the problem of heterogeneity related to the exchanged of multimedia data flows. In the absence of prescriptive architectural design principles, MMSA (Meta-model Multimedia Software Architecture) enables the description of software architectures expressing a multimedia software system as a collection of components which handle various types and formats of multimedia data, and interacts between them via adaptation connectors. This paper proposes a modeling of architectural elements such as: multimedia, application components, communication, etc. and an UML profile for verification and validation of MMSA architectures and detection of heterogeneities between components communicating with multimedia flows.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

UML-profile for multimedia software architectures

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Zine

Roose³

et al. 2010

IJMIS

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“…Software architecture is concerned with constructing software systems based on components (encapsulation of functionality) and connectors (encapsulation of communication) [1][2][3][4][5]. By doing this, it shifts our focus of developing software systems from line-of-code to a higher level, which is a coarser-grained architecture element.…”

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My Architecture: A Knowledge Representation Meta-Model for Software Architecture

Smeda

Oussalah

Khammaci

2008

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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In this article we show how knowledge representation techniques can be applied to software architecture. We define a representation model for software architecture concepts. The model is based on MY model (meta modeling in Y), which is a knowledge engineering methodology. It represents software architecture concepts using three branches: component, connector, and architecture. The component branch represents concepts that are related to computations, the connector branch represents concepts that are related to interactions, and the architecture branch represents concepts that are related to the structure and the topology of the system described. We think that such a representation of architecture concepts aids in improving reusability not only at the implementation level, but also at the description level. The model assigns a hierarchical library for the four software architecture conceptual levels (meta-meta architecture level, meta architecture level, architecture level, application level).

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“…auto-described architecture. The number of levels imports little, but it seems that three levels of modeling are sufficient 1 Meta-architecting is the process of describing the architecture of an architecture, as meta-modeling is the process of modeling a model. within the domain of software architecture where the M 2 A serves as an auto-modeler and as a modeler of ADLs.…”

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“…There are two main streams of software architecture techniques: object-oriented modeling techniques and architectural description technique [1]. During the last decade, object-oriented modeling has become a defacto standard in the early phases of software development process.…”

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Mapping COSA Software Architecture Concepts into UML 2.0

Khammaci¹,

Smeda²,

Oussalah³

5th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science and 1st IEEE/ACIS International Workshop on Componen

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In this article we contribute to the issue of documenting architectural description with UML. Describing the architecture of a software system using UML notations is a tricky task due to the lack of explicit support for architectural description concepts. Thus, we try to define a strategy to map any ADL into UML, particularly UML 2.0. Our strategy is based on constructing a meta ADL that next can be mapped into MOF. We show how this strategy can be used by mapping COSA architectural description concepts into UML 2.0.

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Coexistence of Object-Oriented Modeling and Architectural Description

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

UML-profile for multimedia software architectures

UML-profile for multimedia software architectures

My Architecture: A Knowledge Representation Meta-Model for Software Architecture

Mapping COSA Software Architecture Concepts into UML 2.0

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