The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy and cooperation. Mainstream object-oriented modeling techniques do not a...
Abstract. Nowadays, object-oriented meta-languages such as MOF (MetaObject Facility) are increasingly used to specify domain-specific languages in the model-driven engineering comm...
: In this paper, we present the experience gained with the participation in a case study in which a novel high-level design language (UML4SOA) was used to produce a service-oriente...
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...
with existing analysis tools. Modular reasoning principles such as abstraction, compositional refinement, and assume-guarantee reasoning are well understood for architectural hiera...