An automatic analysis method for first-order logic with sets and relations is described. A first-order formula is translated to a quantifier-free boolean formula, which has a mode...
Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) have been proved useful for the quantitative analysis of systems. This paper introduces ArgoSPE, a tool for the performance evaluation of software syst...
In order to effectively validate the performance of software systems throughout their development cycle it is necessary to continuously build performance models from software mod...
Software reliability models are an important tool in quality management and release planning. There is a large number of different models that often exhibit strengths in differen...
Two experimental tools to support usage-centered design using l use cases and canonical abstract prototypes are described. The models and methods of usage-centered design are outl...