Computer system reliability is conventionally modeled and analyzed using techniques such as fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagrams (RBD), which provide static rep...
Ryan Robidoux, Haiping Xu, Liudong Xing, MengChu Z...
The standardized QVT Relations language, one cornerstone of Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), has not yet gained widespread use in practice, not least due to missing tool support in...
Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
Abstract. In this paper, we address the problem of expressing objectoriented concepts in terms of Petri nets. This is interesting, first, as a possibility of representing concurre...
Dynamic UML models like sequence diagrams (SD) lack sufficient formal semantics, making it difficult to build automated tools for their analysis, simulation and validation. A commo...
Marouane Kessentini, Arbi Bouchoucha, Houari A. Sa...