—Most analysis methods for real-time systems assume that all the components of the system are at roughly the same stage of development and can be expressed in a single notation, ...
George S. Avrunin, James C. Corbett, Laura K. Dill...
Previous work has addressed the development of a framework to categorise and understand agent-based systems. It described and formalised an agent-hierarchy that included objects, ...
A real-time computer system is a system that must perform its functions within specified time bounds. These systems are generally characterized by complex interactions with the en...
The extraction of reusable software components from existing systems is an attractive idea. The goal of the work in this paper is not to extract a component automatically, but to ...
An important challenge in software reengineering is to encapsulate collections of related data that, due to the absence of appropriate constructs for encapsulation in legacy progr...
The process of software development is gradually achieving more rigor. Proficient developers now construct indirectly through the abstraction of models. Models allow a developer t...