Moving architectural description from under the technology lamppost

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-31

  Medvidovic, Nenad ^a   Dashofy, Eric M ^b   Taylor, Richard N ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Software architecture; Software architecture description languages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES (ADL); SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE RESEARCHERS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845970218     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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