The needs of software architectural design and analysis have led to a desire to create CASE tools to support the processes. Such a tool should help: to document an architecture; to reuse architectural artifacts; to aid in exploring architectural alternatives; and to support architectural metrics. This position paper first presents a set of requirements that an ideal tool for architectural desig...

In a recent R&D project, our research group developed an industrial AGV transportation system using a multiagent system (MAS). The software architecture of this system is modeled using several architectural views. In this paper, we study an alternative way of structuring of the architectural description using Theme/UML. Theme/UML is an aspect-oriented design approach that provides support for a...