Several design patterns are defined to make systems more flexible and extensible. The main goal of this work is to show how the representation of these kinds of patterns, which we refer to as ...

In the latest years, the usage of UML to describe complete systems, including SoCs [1], has been increased. In trend with this line, this work proposes a methodology, based on UML, for SoCs designing ...

R. Deaves, A. Lloyd, S. Kulasekara, V. Lakshman, N. Vermaat, E. Vermaat-Cuoco, P. Steiglitz, M. Habets, S. Ryan and A. Jones The paper provides two main technical ...

This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...