Executable architecture

An Executable Architecture (EA), in general, is the description of a system architecture (including software and/or otherwise) in a formal notation together with the tools (e.g. compilers/translators) that allow the automatic or semi-automatic generation of artifacts (e.g. capability gap analysis (CGA), models, software stubs, Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL)) from that notation and which are used in the analysis, refinement, and/or the implementation of the architecture described.

Subjects closely related to EA include:

• Object Management Group's Model-driven architecture
• Object Management Group's Business Process Management Initiative
• Vanderbilt University's Model Integrated Computing (MIC)

Implementations of EA include:

• Rational Rose
• Generic Modeling Environment (GME)
• Open-Source eGov Reference Architecture (OSERA)

• Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
• Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI)
• Business Process Modeling Language (BPML)
• Executable Operational Architecture
• Model-driven architecture (MDA)
• Model-driven engineering (MDE)
• Object Management Group (OMG)
• Semantic Web
• Unified Process
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Vanderbilt University

• Model Integrated Computing (MIC) Website
• OSERA's Website
• Executable Architecture of Software-Defined Enterprises Archived March 20, 2017, at the Wayback Machine