This material relates to a paper proposed at WICSA 2014, the Working Conference on Software Architecture (www.wicsa.net). This work is about using Wikis and Model Driven Engineering jointly to describe an architecture. The idea is to propose to the architect a notation that he is used to use, while having a "formal" engine to process the data in the model.

1. Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Architecture Description leveraging
Model Driven
Engineering and Semantic Wikis
Alessandro Baroni, Ivano Malavolta, Eoin Woods
Henry Muccini, Ph.D.
University of L’Aquila, Italy - henry.muccini@univaq.it
@muccinihenry, henrymuccini.com
Presented @ WICSA 2014, Sydney, Australia

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… more formality and better usability are
required for architecture languages…
Two conflicting concerns:
communication and analytics

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Document as you
like/know
Systematic/Analytic
artefacts
Vs

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Document as you
like
Systematic/Analytic
artefacts
Wiki (semantic) MDE

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Wiki: Semantic Media Wiki
MDE: Eclipse EMF
The «orange» components are those we had to implement

7.  Usability (Practical)
 Under which assumption this approach works?
 How practitioners use wikis to document architectures?
 Transparency (Practical)
 Totally web-based
 Synchronization (Technical)
 Parallel modifications
 «Back and forth» modifications
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Wiki (semantic) MDE

8. If you are interested to this research, please
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Architecture Description leveraging Model Driven Engineering and Semantic Wikis
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Ontology Annotation Metamodel
[F. S. Parreiras, S. Staab, and A. Winter. ESEC/FSE 2007]