“The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a softwareintensive system” [1]. This ...
— Many complex, real world phenomena are difficult to study directly using controlled experiments. Instead, the use of computer simulations has become commonplace as a cost effe...
Dirk Gorissen, Luciano De Tommasi, Jeroen Croon, T...
Technology to support system comprehension tends to reflect either a "bottom-up" or "top-down" approach. Bottom-up approaches attempt to derive system models f...
Kurt C. Wallnau, Paul C. Clements, Edwin J. Morris...
This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality f...
Co-design modeling is considered key toward handling the complexity and scale of network systems. The ability to separately specify the software and hardware aspects of computer n...