• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.167-185
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• 2006

Software architecture, which is the high level model of a software system, should be specified with ADLs (Architecture Description Languages) for its clarity and preciseness. Most of ADLs such as ACME, however, have not come into extensive use in industries since ADL users should learn a distinct notation specific to architecture. On the other hand, UML is a do facto standard general modeling language for software developments. UML provides a consistent notation and various supporting tools during the whole software development cycle. UML, being a general modeling language, does not provide all concepts that are important to architecture description. UML should be extended in order to precisely model architecture. A number of researches on architecture modeling based on WML have been progressed. Ail of them, however, are based on the UML1.x. UML2.0 embraces much more concepts that are important to architecture modeling than UML1.x. In this paper. we defined an architecture modeling language based on UML2.0. We defined Generic ADL by extending UML2.0 and applied the defined Generic ADL to a restaurant reservation system.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.17-31
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• 2006

Software architecture is the high level model of a software system. It should be specified with ADLs (Architecture Description Languages) for its clarity and preciseness. Most ADLs such as C2SADL have not come into extensive use in industries since ADL users should learn a distinct notation specific to architecture, and ADLs do not address all stakes of the development process that is becoming diversified everyday. On the other hand, UML is a do facto standard general modeling language for software developments. UML provides a consistent notation and various supporting tools during the whole software development cycle. But, UML is a general modeling language and does not provide all concepts that are important to architecture description. UML should be extended in order to precisely model architecture. In this paper, we defined a C2 architecture modeling language as a UML2.0 profile. We applied the defined C2 architecture modeling language to the modeling of a restaurant reservation system.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.6
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• pp.645-656
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• 2001

Recently, component-based development (CBD) is rapidly spreading as a way of improving the reusability, productivity, and quality of software. For CBD to be effective in achieving such design objectives, the creation and integration of components must be based on a well-defined architecture that guides the correct composition and cooperation of application components. Software architecture must be described using an architecture description language (ADL) to ensure the correctness and preciseness of architecture models. In this paper, we propose the system architecture of an ADL tool set that can effectively support the use of CBD based on the domain architecture and we describe each component of the proposed system architecture. We also modify and redefine C2SADL that was developed to support the use of the description of C2 architectural style by UCI (University of California in Irvine) to facilitate the integration of separately described architecture models, and introduce the method of design and implementation of our ADL processor that partially implements the proposed ADL system architecture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.373-375
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• 2001

소프트웨어를 아키텍쳐 수준에서 정확하고 엄밀하게 설계, 분석하는 것이 점차 중요해짐에 따라 사용이 쉬우면서 기술적으로 성숙된 아키텍쳐 기술언어(ADL Architecture Description Language)의 필요성이 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 컴포넌트 기반의 도메인 아키텍쳐 모델링 시 C2 스타일의 아키텍쳐 기술을 지원하는 ADL을 정의한다. 본 논문에서 정의한 ADL은 자바(Java)와 유사한 구문으로 컴포넌트 명세와 아키텍쳐 명세를 분리하여 기술할 수 있는 표기 형식을 제공한다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.1076-1087
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• 2010

Together with a new advent of embedded processor developed to support specific application area and it evolution, a new research of software development to support the embedded processor and its commercial challenge has been revitalized. Retargetability is typically achieved by providing target machine information, ADL, as input. The ADLs are used to specify processor and memory architectures and generate software toolkit including compiler, simulator, assembler, profiler, and debugger. The EXPRESSION ADL follows a mixed level approach-it can capture both the structure and behavior supporting a natural specification of the programmable architectures consisting of processor cores, coprocessors, and memories. And it was originally designed to capture processor/memory architectures and generate software toolkit to enable compiler-in-the-loop exploration of SoC architecture. In this paper, we designed the class-based ADL based on the EXPRESSION ADL to promote the write-ability, extensibility and verified the validation of grammar. For this works, we defined 6 core classes and generated the EXPRESSION's compiler and simulator through the MIPS R4000 description.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.13D no.2 s.105
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• pp.235-240
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• 2006

Software architectures may be described using text-based architecture description language(ADL). The key goals of an ADL are to communicate alternate designs between different stakeholders, to detect reusable structures, and to record design decisions. This paper provided a solution to the representation problem by creating a tool for three-dimensional representation of architectural viewpoints. The tool consisted of an architecture description language(VTADL) to first describe the software architectures and viewpoints on the architectures; and a VTADL-to-VRML translator to translate each viewpoint into a separate virtual reality world The goal of the paper was to devise algorithms for translating an ADL into effective VRML representations based on the desired viewpoint. The VRML representations were intended to enhance comprehension on the overall design and to improve communications between diverse stakeholders.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.16-18
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• 2002

컴포넌트 시스템은 잘 정의된 아키덱처를 기반으로 개발되어야 한다. 소프트웨어 아키텍처를 정확하고 엄밀하게 설계, 분석하기 위해서는 아키텍처 기술언어(ADL)의 사용이 필요하다. 컴포넌트 시스템의 아키텍처 모델링에 ADL을 효과적으로 사용하기 위해서는ADL로 기술된 명세 수준의 아키텍처 모델로부터 목표한 플랫폼에 부합하는 컴포넌트 시스템을 효율적으로 구현할 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 C2 스타일의 아키텍처에 기반한 컴포넌트 합성을 지원하는 ADL을 설계, 구현한 결과와 이를 EJB 컴포넌트들의 조립을 지원하는도구의 아키텍처 기술 언어로 사용한 사례를 설명한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.3
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• pp.409-416
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• 2002

The reuse by using framework is proposed to improve productivity. It is a set of usable and expandable classes and their connectivity. But frameworks are described with programming languages, it is hard for developers to learn the collaborative patterns of a framework by reading it. Patterns are one approach to improving the documentation. But this should be redesigned to expand and redefine the framework. The necessity of the formal description of architecture information is being proposed to relate to programming language. This paper support the following points. First of all, it has been proposed the description of the needed elements when developing a framework using ADL. Secondly, the current development process has been refined to be suitable for developing the domain framework. Thirdly, it has been proposed the development of a application using a framework implemented by an architecture information described with ADL. Overalls, the main contents of this research is defining the ideas of a description and development of an architecture framework using ADL.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.9C
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• pp.913-921
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• 2007

Retargetable compiler which generates executable code for a target processor and performance profiler are required to design a processor optimized for a specific application. This paper presents an architecture exploration methodology based on ADL (Architecture Description Language). We synthesized instruction set and optimized processor structure using information extracted from application program. The information of operation sequences executed frequently and register usage are used for processor optimization. Architecture exploration has been performed for JPEG encoder to show the effectiveness of the system. The ASIP designed using the proposed method shows 1.97 times better performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.9
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• pp.758-766
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• 2009

In this days, the concept of time-to-market is important in embedded systems in consumer electronics. According to the short time of development period, it is also important in development of Software Development toolkits (SDKs). However, it is not improved to the development time of SDKs specialized in new processors. In this point, the Architecture Description Language (ADL) is an alternative to relieve the pain of building the SDKs as the required SDKs can be automatically generated from ADL for the processor. In this paper, we automatically generate SDKs specialized in processors using GNU Binutils. Through this research, we can more easier and faster produce the SDKs such as assembler and linker than by using handcrafted code.