Abstract. Design patterns are templates of general solutions to commonlyoccurring problems in the analysis and design of software systems. In mature development processes, engineer...
Wireless links have intrinsic characteristics that affect the performance of transport protocols; these include variable bandwidth, corruption, channel allocation delays, and asym...
New product development involves people with different backgrounds. Designers, engineers, and consumers all have different design criteria, and these criteria interact. Early conce...
— With the rise in complexity of modern systems, designers are spending a significant time on at the system level of abstraction. This paper introduces Model Algebra, a formalis...
A UML model of a software system can be represented by a sequence of model transformations, starting from an empty model. To effectively support the design of complex systems, tra...