Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
In this paper we present an approach to performance estimation for hard real-time systems. We consider architectures consisting of multiple processors. The scheduling policy is ba...
Using Bruce Tuckman’s [1] “Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing” model of team development we review the effects of change on our team through each stage. We go o...
During design exploration, many implementations of the same system specification may need to be evaluated. In this paper, we present an approach to construct sufficient and nece...
This note aims at providing a concise and precise Travellers Guide, Phrase Book or Reference Manual to the timed automata modeling formalism introduced by Alur and Dill [7, 8]. The...