The provision of efficient methods and tool support for the development and engineering of distributed systems is a key enabling factor for the evolution of Information Technology...
Virtual prototyping with 3D drawing programs provides a means of rapidly developing system concepts and analyzing them for form, fit, logistics, human factors integration, and gen...
Large and complex software systems require expressive notations for representing their software architecture. In this context Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) can be used...
Maintaining integrity, consistency, and enforcing conformance in architectures of large-scale systems requires specification and enforcement of many different forms of structural...
This paper initiates a framework for improving product development processes. The starting point is the present gap between the theory of product and process models and their actu...