systems are commonly abstracted as collections of interacting components. This perspective has lead to the insight that component behaviors can be defined separately from admissi...
The importance of distributed systems is growing as computing devices become ubiquitous and bandwidth becomes plentiful. Concurrency and distribution pose algorithmic and implemen...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a widely used visual formalism for scenario-based specifications of distributed reactive systems. In its conventional usage, an MSC captures an ...
Many applications have one or more important modules that are written in a language other than conventional procedural or object oriented languages. These languages are often tran...
This paper reports the results of exploratory research to develop a pilot pattern language for systems engineers at BAE SYSTEMS. The pattern language was designed to encapsulate k...