Formal real-time architecture specification and analysis
RTOSS '93 Proceedings of the tenth IEEE workshop on Real-time operating systems and software
Exploiting style in architectural design environments
SIGSOFT '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Correct Architecture Refinement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Using object-oriented typing to support architectural design in the C2 style
SIGSOFT '96 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Formalizing architectural connection
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
A framework for classifying and comparing architecture description languages
ESEC '97/FSE-5 Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Integrating architecture description languages with a standard design method
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Acme: architectural description of component-based systems
Foundations of component-based systems
The 4+1 View Model of Architecture
IEEE Software
Architectural Styles, Design Patterns, and Objects
IEEE Software
Specifying Distributed Software Architectures
Proceedings of the 5th European Software Engineering Conference
Describing Software Architecture with UML
WICSA1 Proceedings of the TC2 First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA1)
Assessing the Suitability of a Standard Design Method for Modeling Software Architectures
WICSA1 Proceedings of the TC2 First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA1)
Modeling software architectures in the Unified Modeling Language
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
Reconciling the needs of architectural description with object-modeling notations
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue on unified modeling language (UML 2000)
Distributed Component System Based on Architecture Description: The SOFA Experience
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Integrating the ConcernBASE Approach with SADL
«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
Towards an ADL for Designing Agent-Based Systems
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Heavyweight extensions to the UML metamodel to describe the C3 architectural style
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Quality analysis of dependable systems: a developer oriented approach
Architecting dependable systems
Dynamic evolution in aspect-oriented architectural models
EWSA'05 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
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Complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architectures. Two competing paths have emerged. One is to use a specialized notation for architecture - or architecture description language (ADL). The other is to adapt a general-purpose modeling notation, such as UML. The latter has a number of benefits, including familiarity to developers, close mapping to implementations, and commercial tool support. However, it remains an open question as to how best to use object-oriented notations for architectural description, and, indeed, whether they are sufficiently expressive, as currently defined. In this paper we take a systematic look at these questions, examining the space of possible mappings from ADLs into object notations. Specifically, we describe (a) the principle strategies for representing architectural structure in UML; (b) the benefits and limitations of each strategy; and (c) aspects of architectural description that are intrinsically difficult to model in UML using the strategies.