Transaction-level modeling has been touted to improve simulation performance and modeling efficiency for early design space exploration. But no tools are available to generate suc...
Dongwan Shin, Andreas Gerstlauer, Junyu Peng, Rain...
Many design models and representations have been proposed to support user-centered system design, such as scenarios, use cases, and prototypes. With these artifacts, designers typ...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
Despite the increasing maturity of model-driven development (MDD), some research challenges remain open in the field of information systems (IS). For instance, there is a need to i...
This paper introduces a formally specified design of a compositional generic agent model (GAM). This del abstracts from specific application domains; it provides a unified formal ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...