Architecture Description Languages

Architecture Description Languages is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of system engineering and design. The papers presented in this volume were selected from the workshop of the same name that was held as part of the World Computer Congress 2004 Conference, held in Toulouse, France in August 2004. This collection presents significant research and innovative developments and applications from both academic researchers and industry practitioners on topics ranging from Semantics to Tool and Development Environments.

The aim of an ADL is to formally describe software and hardware architectures. Usually, an ADL describes components, their interfaces, their structures, their interactions (structure of data flow and control flow) and the mappings to hardware systems. A major goal of such description is to allow analysis with respect to several aspects like timing, safety, reliability. The papers in this state-of-the-art volume cover such topics of interest as components, connectors, composition; semantics and formalization; verification, simulation and test; tools and development environments; standardization; industrial projects.

To encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial networking research communities, the workshop welcomed academic research papers as well as industrial contributions, and both are included here. Which makes this collection important not only for ADL experts and researchers, but also for all teachers and administrators interested in ADL.

Presents the most current research in the field of ADL, from both the academic as well as the industrial community

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Architecture Description Languages is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the field of system engineering and design. The papers presented in this volume were selected from the workshop of the same name that was held as part of the World Computer Congress 2004 Conference, held in Toulouse, France in August 2004. This collection presents significant research and innovative developments and applications from both academic researchers and industry practitioners on topics ranging from Semantics to Tool and Development Environments. The aim of an ADL is to formally describe software and hardware architectures. Usually, an ADL describes components, their interfaces, their structures, their interactions (structure of data flow and control flow) and the mappings to hardware systems. A major goal of such description is to allow analysis with respect to several aspects like timing, safety, reliability. The papers in this state-of-the-art volume cover such topics of interest as components, connectors, composition; semantics and formalization; verification, simulation and test; tools and development environments; standardization; industrial projects. To encourage closer interaction between academic and industrial networking research communities, the workshop welcomed academic research papers as well as industrial contributions, and both are included here. Which makes this collection important not only for ADL experts and researchers, but also for all teachers and administrators interested in ADL.

Inhalt
Tutorial.- An Overview of the SAE Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) Standard: A Basis for Model-Based Architecture-Driven Embedded Systems Engineering.- Models and Analysis.- Deploying QoS Contracts in the Architectural Level.- Hierarchical Composition and Abstraction in Architecture Models.- Pattern-Based Analysis of an Embedded Real-Time System Architecture.- An ADL Centric Approach for the Formal Design of Real-Time Systems.- Specification and Design.- Safarchie Studio: ArgoUML Extensions to Build Safe Architectures.- Enhancing the Role of Interfaces in Software Architecture Description Languages (ADLs).- How ADLs Can Help in Adapting the CORBA Component Model to Real-Time Embedded Software Design.- UML2 as an ADL Hierarchichal Hardware Modeling.- Domain Specific Architecture Description Languages.- Specification of Intel IA-32 Using an Architecture Description Language.- COTRE as an AADL Profile.- EAST-ADL An Architecture Description Language.- Building Tool Suite for AADL.