Abstract. Software performance engineering deals with the consideration of quantitative analysis of the behaviour of software systems from the early development phases in the life ...
It is widely recognised that software development is a complex process. Among the factors that contribute to its inherent complexity is the gap between the design and the formal a...
Over the last decade, the relevance of performance evaluation in the early stages of the software development life-cycle has been steadily rising. We honestly believe that the int...
: UML currently still lacks a rigorously defined semantics for its models, which makes formally analyzing a model and verifying its properties extremely difficult. To remedy that, ...
Petri net community has suļ¬ered with the lack of a standard format to represent Petri net models. This situation led to an undesirable tool incompatibility. In order to solve thi...
Gabriel Alves, Adilson Arcoverde, Ricardo Massa Fe...