In various circumstances, it is possible to arrive at the need to specify sequences of operations that a "machine" has to perform to achieve a purpose. This paper will p...
The rCOS modeler implements the requirements modelling phase of a model driven component-based software engineering process. Components are specified in rCOS, a relational calculus...
In this paper, the problem of automatically mapping large-grain dataflow programs onto heterogeneous hardware/softwarearchitectures is treated. Starting with a given hardware/soft...
It is now widely recognized that the so-called nonfunctional or extra-functional properties of a software system are at least as important as its somewhat more classical functiona...
Because of its facilities for the generalization and specialization of concepts and the unambiguous terminology they provide, ontologies are being used for the representation of re...