Abstract. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is intended to describe systems, but it is not clear what systems satisfy a given collection of UML diagrams. Stephen Mellor has desc...
Today many formalisms exist for specifying complex Markov chains. In contrast, formalisms for specifying rewards, enabling the analysis of long-run average performance properties,...
Theperformanceofvariousorganizationalstructuresisanessentialparameterinthereengineeringoforganizations, particularly in the current rapidly changing, competitive and information t...
While sensor networks are going to be deployed in diverse application specific contexts, one unifying view is to treat them essentially as distributed databases. The simplest mech...
Despite the widespread recognition that information technology (IT) and business process are tightly connected, existing system design methods provide limited guidance on how to t...