Abstract. Software systems evolve over time. From a component-based software engineering perspective, this means that either the components of the system need to change, or, if com...
Experiences with the use of the MSC language for complex system specifications have shown that certain extensions are necessary in order to arrive at sufficiently transparent and m...
Abstract: Event Driven Process Chains (EPC) are commonly used for the modelling of business processes. As modelling is decentralised to personnel not familiar with the formal aspec...
Abstract. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a family of design notations that is rapidly becoming a de facto standard software design language. UML provides a variety of usefu...
Nenad Medvidovic, David S. Rosenblum, David F. Red...
Architectural patterns are a key point in architectural documentation. Regrettably, there is poor support for modeling architectural patterns, because the pattern elements are not...