The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
This paper describes how design information, in our case UML specifications, can be used to evolve a software system and validate the consistency of such an evolution. This work c...
If a business built a plant to produce products without first designing a process to manufacture them, the risk would be lack of capacity without significant plant redesign. Simil...
Ever-growing complexity is forcing design to move above RTL. For example, golden functional models are being written as clearly as possible in software and not optimized or intend...
The importance of early performance assessment grows as software systems increase in terms of size, logical distribution and interaction complexity. Lack of time from the side of ...