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ACME: An Architecture Description Interchange Language

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Numerous architectural description languages (ADLs) have been developed, each providing complementary capabilities for architectural development and analysis. Unfortunately, each ADL and supporting toolset operates in isolation, making it difficult to integrate those tools and share architectural descriptions. ACME is being developed as a joint effort of the software architecture research community as a common interchange format for architecture design tools. ACME provides a structural framework for characterizing architectures, together with annotation facilities for additional ADL-specific information. This scheme permits subsets of ADL tools to share architectural information that is jointly understood, while tolerating the presence of information that falls outside their common vocabulary. In this paper we describe ACME's key features, rationale, and technical innovations.

Source: KiltHub Repository

DOI: 10.1184/r1/6703466

Authors: Garlan, David, Monroe, Robert T., Wile, David

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Advanced Research Projects Agency

Award: NSF Young Investigator: Towards An Engineering Basis for Software Architecture

OpenAlex ID: W6903571951

FWCI: 3.611

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