A comprehensive approach for the development of modular software architecture description languages

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 199-245

  Dashofy, Eric M ^a   Van Der Hoek, André ^a   Taylor, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture description languages; ArchStudio 3; xADL 2.0; XML

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; ARCHSTUDIO 3; XADL 2.0;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; XML;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 30544450414     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 1049331X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1061254.1061258     Document Type: Article

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