Embedded Architect is a design automation tool that embodies a static performance evaluation technique to support early, architecture-level design space exploration for component-...
A good object-oriented design does not necessarily make a good component-based design, and vice versa. What design principles do components introduce? This paper examines componen...
Commonly represented as directed graphs, social networks depict relationships and behaviors among social entities such as people, groups, and organizations. Social network analysi...
A critical issue for complex component-based systems design is the modeling and analysis of architecture. One of the complicating factors in developing architectural models is acc...
The latest ITU-T standard syntax of Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) 16] o ers several operators to compose MSCs in a hierarchical, iterating, and nondeterministic way. However, curr...