HADL: HUMS architectural description language

Specification of architectures is an important prerequisite for evaluation of architectures. With the increase in the growth of health usage and monitoring systems (HUMS) in commercial and military domains, the need for the design and evaluation of HUMS architectures has also been on the increase. In this paper, we describe HADL, HUMS Architectural Description Language, that we have designed for this purpose. In particular, we describe the features of the language, illustrate them with examples, and show how we use it in designing domain-specific HUMS architectures. A companion paper contains details on our design methodology of HUMS architectures.