@article {10.3844/jcssp.2005.454.460,
article_type = {journal},
title = {Meta Architecting: Towered a New Generation of Architecture Description Languages},
author = {Smeda, Adel and Khammaci, Tahar and Oussalah, Mourad},
volume = {1},
number = {4},
year = {2005},
month = {Dec},
pages = {454-460},
doi = {10.3844/jcssp.2005.454.460},
url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2005.454.460},
abstract = {The techniques of meta-modeling and meta-levels have become a mature concept and have been largely used to solve real problems in programming languages, distributed environments, knowledge representation, or data bases. In this article it is shown how the same techniques can be applied in component-based software architecture. It also shown the need to propose mechanisms of reflexivity  within  the  domain  of software architecture meta-modeling. The outcome of this is a meta-meta-architecture   with  a  minimal  core  whose  finality  is  to  define   meta-components,  meta-connectors and meta-architectures. Call this meta-meta-architecture MADL (Meta Architecture Description Language). },
journal = {Journal of Computer Science},
publisher = {Science Publications}
}