Using view-based models to formalize architecture description
Kurt Lichtner, Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan · 1998
Over the last few years, architecture description languages (ADLs) have become both progressively more ezpressive and widespread.While some ADLs have formally defined semantics, most are still informally specified.In this position paper we present an approach to modeling architecture description languages based on views.Our approach is based on partitioning and formalizing each semantically independent concept, or view, represented in an ADL.Along with the approach, me discuss three pmctical applications of our model, namely ADL comparison, architecture analysis, and component selection.