Representing and Formally Modeling COSA Software Architecture with UML 2.0 Profile


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A key aspect of the design of any software system is its architecture. An architecture description provides a formal model of the architecture in terms of components and connectors and how they are composed together. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely used in the design of software systems and has recently been extended to better support software architecture description. This paper presents the UML 2.0 Profile for representing and formally modeling software architectures. It describes a UML profile for the model COSA (Component-Object based Software Architecture), which is a software architecture model that describes systems as a collection of components and connectors. It briefly presents COSA and its UML 2.0 Profile, then it illustrates through an example how the Profile can be used to describe the architecture of software systems
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Software Architecture; COSA; Architecture Description Languages; UML 2.0 Modeling Language; UML Profile; Mapping

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