Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained elements and their interconnection structure. Architecture description languages (ADLs) ...
: The techniques of meta-modeling and meta-levels have become a mature concept and have been largely used to solve real problems in programming languages, distributed environments,...
The description of software architectures has always been concerned with the definition of the appropriate languages for designing the various architectural artifacts. Over the pa...
Many languages for software architectures have been proposed, each dealing with different stakeholder concerns, operating at different levels of abstraction and with different deg...
Software architecture description languages (ADLs) were a particularly active research area in the 1990s. In 2000, we published an extensive study of existing ADLs, which has serv...