MADL: Meta Architecture Description Language

Large and complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architecture. In this context Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) can be used for describing architectures of components-based software systems. Typical ADLs provide explicit support for specifying components, connectors, and configuration as well as for building hierarchical systems configurations. All of them allow structural dependencies among components to be specified to define static configurations. This may be sufficient for an initial system composition, but does not provide enough information for reasoning about the different kind of connections among elements. Physical and logical connections are defined in this paper. Four kinds of hierarchies are also presented. Each one is used to provide special-purpose view about the architecture.

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“…So, our C3 metamodel is defined in conformance with MADL. MADL is similar to MOF but componentoriented [12].…”

Section: Figure 8a External View Of the Metamodeling Hierarchymentioning

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Hierarchical Model to Develop Component-Based Systems

Amirat

Oussalah

2008

15th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (Ecbs 2008)

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“…within the domain of software architecture where the M 2 A serves as an auto-modeler and as a modeler of ADLs. The four metamodeling layers of OMG [3] can be applied to software architecture and the outcome of this is an architecture with four levels represent the different architecture levels, starting from the definition of the meta-meta-architecture to the application level [17]. Consequently, one can see four conceptual levels in software architecture: meta-metaarchitecture level, meta-architecture level, architecture level, and application level.…”

Section: Madl : Meta Architecture Description Languagementioning

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“…Thus we have define a meta ADL for software architecture named Meta Architecture Description Language (MADL). MADL is organized in three packages: Meta-MetaArchitecture package, Meta-Architecture package, and Architecture package [17]. Figure 2 shows the structure of the MADL model.…”

Section: Madl : Meta Architecture Description Languagementioning

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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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“…The mapping is achieved in four steps: 1. first step, conforming the ADL that we want to map to a meta ADL (the meta ADL we used for this work is called MADL [6], figure 2). 2. second step, mapping each element of the meta-ADL into an element of MOF, figure 3.…”

Section: The Second Strategy: Mapping Adls Into Uml Using a Meta Adlmentioning

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