Denotational semantics: a methodology for language development
Denotational semantics: a methodology for language development
Exploiting style in architectural design environments
SIGSOFT '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Architecture
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
Programming language semantics
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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
A formal basis for architectural connection
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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
Acme-Based Software Architecture Interchange
COORDINATION '99 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Coordination Languages and Models
Acme: an architecture description interchange language
CASCON '97 Proceedings of the 1997 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
xADL: Enabling Architecture-Centric Tool Integration with XML
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 9 - Volume 9
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Numerous architectural description languages(ADLs) have been developed in the last decade. However, none of the ADLs and their toolsets are expressive enough to cover all the requirements that may be specified while developing a software system. An ADL based approach will be more useful and powerful if ADLs can share architectural descriptions and if their analysis tools can be integrated. In this paper, we propose a semantics-based approach to integrating ADLs. A general, abstract executable form is developed for representing architectural information. A uniform query language is also defined that can be used to retrieve architectural information from this abstract form. There are at least three benefits of our framework. First, software designer and analysis tools can use a uniform query language to retrieve architectural information from architectural descriptions written in different ADLs. Second, interpreters and toolsets for ADLs can be developed extremely quickly. Thus, as an ADL rapidly evolves, its implementation infrastructure can be developed at the same pace. Third, an architecture description written in one ADL can be readily translated into another ADL.