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Modeling Architectural Pattern Variants 1 1 2 Ahmad Waqas Kamal , Paris Avgeriou , and Uwe Zdun 1 Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands a.w.kamal@rug.nl, paris@cs.rug.nl 2 Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria zdun@infosys.tuwien.ac.at Abstract Systematic modeling of architectural patterns is a challenging task mostly because of the inherent pattern variability and because pattern elements do not match the architectural abstractions of modeling languages. In this paper, we describe an approach for systematic modeling of architectural patterns using a set of architectural primitives and a vocabulary of pattern-specific architectural elements. These architectural primitives can be used as the basic building blocks for modeling a number of architectural patterns. We introduce profiles for the UML2 meta-model to express the architectural primitives. The use of the primi- tives along with the stereotyping scheme is capable of handling some of the chal- lenges for the systematic modeling of architectural patterns, such as expressing pattern participants in software design. keywords: Architectural Pattern, Architectural Primitive, Modeling, UML. 1 Motivation Architectural patterns provide solutions to recurring problems at the architecture de- sign level. These patterns not only document ’how’ solution solves the problem at hand but also ’why’ it is solved, i.e. the rationale behind this specific solution [14]. So far, a huge list of patterns has been documented in the literature