<s>
Software	B-Language
analysis	I-Language
patterns	I-Language
or	O
analysis	O
patterns	O
in	O
software	B-General_Concept
engineering	I-General_Concept
are	O
conceptual	B-Application
models	I-Application
,	O
which	O
capture	O
an	O
abstraction	O
of	O
a	O
situation	O
that	O
can	O
often	O
be	O
encountered	O
in	O
modelling	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
analysis	O
pattern	O
can	O
be	O
represented	O
as	O
"	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
related	O
,	O
generic	O
objects	O
(	O
meta-classes	B-Language
)	O
with	O
stereotypical	O
attributes	O
(	O
data	O
definitions	O
)	O
,	O
behaviors	O
(	O
method	O
signatures	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
expected	O
interactions	O
defined	O
in	O
a	O
domain-neutral	O
manner.	O
"	O
</s>
