: Systems are defined by their components and the relationships among their components, hence when modelling systems using an objectoriented (OO) approach, objects alone are insuff...
Metamodels are functions with calibrated parameters, used actions and simplifications of the simulation model. A metamodel exposes the system’s input-output relationship and ca...
UML is the standard visual object modeling language which may be very useful as a system design communication language. However, UML as a real-time modeling language has limitatio...
The taking of turns to speak is an intrinsic property of conversation. It is expected that models of taking turns, providing a prior distribution over conversational form, can red...
Many of the problems that occur in long-running systems involve the way that the system uses memory. We have developed a framework for extracting and building a model of the heap ...