Abstract—Many design steps during system development like functional partitioning, refactoring of the architecture, or the mapping to the platform - can be understood as an explo...
Design of embedded systems is a complex task that requires design cycles founded upon formal notation, so that the synthesis from specification to implementation can be carried ou...
The work of Boden on the nature of creativity has been extremely influential, particularly the hypothesis that the highest form of creativity results from transformation of a conce...
The development of high-performance libraries has become extraordinarily difficult due to multiple processor cores, vector instruction sets, and deep memory hierarchies. Often, t...
We present an approach for secure information flow property preserving refinement and transformation of UML inspired interaction diagrams. The approach is formally underpinned b...