The visitor pattern is appealing to developers of program-analysis tools because it separates the design of the data structures that represent a program from the design of softwar...
The paper introduces mixed networks, a new framework for expressing and reasoning with probabilistic and deterministic information. The framework combines belief networks with con...
COMMUNITY is a formal approach to software architecture. Its main characteristics are: a precise, yet intuitive mathematical semantics based on categorical diagrams; a clear separ...
We present a conceptual framework for validating reusable behavioral models. The setting for this work is a modern product development environment in which design is performed by ...
The software engineering community has introduced component and connector concepts to support architecture-based software descriptions. However, there still exists a gap in transi...