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Towards a UML Profile for Software Architecture Descriptions

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To formally describe architectures of software systems, specific languages called Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) have been developed by academic institutions and research labs. However, more and more research and industrial projects are using the standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) for representing software architectures of systems. In this paper, we focus on how to extend the UML by incorporating some key abstractions found in current ADLs, such as connectors, components and configurations, and how the UML can be used for modeling architectural viewpoints. Our approach is demonstrated by the software architecture of a video surveillance system. It is therefore the purpose of the paper to show that a UML profile for software architecture abstractions is needed.

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Software Engineering Laboratory, CH-1015, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland

    Mohamed Mancona Kandé & Alfred Strohmeier

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Y010 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

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  2. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

    Stuart Kent

  3. Rational Software Inc., 340 March Road, Kanata, K2K,2E4, Ontario, Canada

    Bran Selic

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Mancona Kandé, M., Strohmeier, A. (2000). Towards a UML Profile for Software Architecture Descriptions. In: Evans, A., Kent, S., Selic, B. (eds) ≪UML≫ 2000 — The Unified Modeling Language. UML 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40011-7_38

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