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CCE
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Scheduling of a mixed batch/continuous sugar milling plant using Petri nets
Scheduling of processes in mixed batch/continuous plants, due to their hybrid nature can become very complex. This paper presents the Timed Hybrid Petri net (THPN) as a suitable t...
Mahsa Ghaeli, Parisa A. Bahri, Peter L. Lee
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Towards a Systems Engineering Pattern Language: Applying i* to Model Requirements-Architecture Patterns
This paper reports the results of exploratory research to develop a pilot pattern language for systems engineers at BAE SYSTEMS. The pattern language was designed to encapsulate k...
Pete Pavan, Neil A. M. Maiden, Xiaohong Zhu
AOSE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Tool-Supported Development with Tropos: The Conference Management System Case Study
Abstract. The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos offers a structured development process and supporting tools for developing complex, distributed systems. The ...
Mirko Morandini, Duy Cu Nguyen, Anna Perini, Alber...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Analyzing medical processes
This paper shows how software engineering technologies used to define and analyze complex software systems can also be effective in detecting defects in human-intensive processes ...
Bin Chen, George S. Avrunin, Elizabeth A. Henneman...
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Chaos of Software Development
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt