An Environment for Software and Systems Architecture Modeling

An Environment for Software and Systems Architecture Modeling (Demo, Poster)
Student: Eric M. Dashofy, UCI/ISR
Advisor: Richard N. Taylor, UCI/ISR
Abstract: Modeling large software systems, especially in the context of larger systems-of-systems, has been a notoriously difficult task to do efficiently and consistently. Furthermore, existing tools and notations for doing so generally embody a particular world-view that is not always the best fit for a given modeling situation. In general, it is difficult or impossible to adapt these existing tools and notations to deal with new requirements that are induced by the problem domain...and no two domains are the same. In this demonstration, I'll be showing the latest progress on the ArchStudio environment, a unified environment for systems modeling where extensibility is pervasive.
Bio: Eric Dashofy is a Ph.D. student the Institute for Software Research at the University of California, Irvine; his advisor is Richard N. Taylor. His research interests include architecture-centric modeling and development of software-intensive systems. He is the primary maintainer for xADL 2.0, Apigen, and ArchStudio 3. He is currently authoring a textbook on software architecture with Richard Taylor and Neno Medvidovic.