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...
Existing ADLs (Architecture Description Languages) have an advantage of formally specifying the architecture of component-based systems. But ADLs have not come into extensive use ...
UML is gaining increased attention as a system design language, as indicated by current standardization activities such as the SysML initiative and the UML for SoC Forum. Moreover...
The notion of aspect is important as a systematic approach to the representation of cross-cutting concerns and the incremental additions of new functionalities to an existing syst...
Rather recently object-oriented modeling languages, tools, and methods attract the interest of embedded (realtime) system developers. This is especially true if embedded (real-tim...