From the June 2013 Issue

What Industry Needs from Architectural Languages: A Survey

By Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Antony Tang

Many times we are faced with the proliferation of definitions, concepts, languages, and tools in certain (research) topics. But often there is a gap between what is provided by existing technologies and what is needed by their users. The strengths, limitations, and needs of the available technologies can be dubious. The same applies to software architectures, and specifically to languages designed to represent architectural models. Tens of different architectural languages have been introduced by the research and industrial communities in the last two decades. However, it is unclear if they fulfill the user's perceived needs in architectural description...

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