Use case models are used in object-oriented analysis for capturing and describing the functional requirements of a system. Several methods for estimating software development effor...
With the success of model-driven development as well as component-based and service-oriented systems, models of software architecture are key artefacts in the development process. ...
Constraint automata have been introduced to provide a compositional, operational semantics for the exogenous coordination language Reo, but they can also serve interface specifica...
Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) and its generalization - fluid particle model (FPM) - represent the "fluid particle" approach for simulating fluid-like behavior in t...
Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...