EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF ADL BASED APPROACHES FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF DYNAMIC OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES

Mohamed Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Jmaiel, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Khalil Drira

2005

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation study of Architecture Description Languages (ADL) which allows to compare the expressive power of these languages for specifying the dynamicity of software architectures. Our investigation enabled us to release two categories of ADLs: configuration languages and description languages. Here, we address both categories, and we focus on two aspects: the behaviour of software components and the evolution of the architecture during execution. In addition, we explain how each ADL handles these aspects and demonstrate that they are generally not or not enough dealt with by most of the ADLs. This motivates future extensions to be undertaken in this domain. Throughout this paper, we illustrate the comparison of these two aspects by describing an example of a distributed application for collaborative authoring support.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hadj Kacem M., Jmaiel M., Hadj Kacem A. and Drira K. (2005). EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF ADL BASED APPROACHES FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF DYNAMIC OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 189-195. DOI: 10.5220/0002524701890195

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Mohamed Hadj Kacem and Mohamed Jmaiel and Ahmed Hadj Kacem and Khalil Drira},
title={EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF ADL BASED APPROACHES FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF DYNAMIC OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={189-195},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002524701890195},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF ADL BASED APPROACHES FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF DYNAMIC OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Hadj Kacem M.
AU - Jmaiel M.
AU - Hadj Kacem A.
AU - Drira K.
PY - 2005
SP - 189
EP - 195
DO - 10.5220/0002524701890195