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Realizing architecture frameworks through megamodelling techniques

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Rich Hilliard,

Ivano Malavolta,

Henry Muccini,

Patrizio PelliccioneAuthors Info & Claims

ASE '10: Proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Pages 305 - 308

https://doi.org/10.1145/1858996.1859057

Published: 20 September 2010 Publication History

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Most practising software architects operate within an architecture framework which is a coordinated set of viewpoints, models and notations prescribed for them. Whereas architecture frameworks are defined to varying degrees of rigour and offer varying levels of tool support, they tend to be closed: constituent elements are defined in different non-standard ways, they are not re-usable, and the creation of other frameworks requires a complete rework.

With the aim to manage this issue, this paper presents MEGAF, an infrastructure for realizing architecture frameworks, which can be used to create architecture descriptions. It builds upon the conceptual foundations of ISO/IEC 42010 for architecture description. MEGAF is realized through megamodeling techniques and is implemented via Eclipse plugins.

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ISBN:9781450301169

DOI:10.1145/1858996

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Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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