This article introduces the Time Model subprofile of MARTE, a new OMG UML Profile dedicated to Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded systems. After a brief presentatio...
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding ...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
We present and compare existing formalisms that consider the control of Petri net process models in the area of business processes and web services. Control has the aim to force a ...
It is now commonly accepted that security and dependability largely represent two different aspects of an overall meta-concept that reflects the trust that we put in a computer s...
The finite average response time model is a very weak distributed systems model: it permits runs with unbounded transmission and processing delays and it does not bound the relat...