which we refer to as configuration design patterns, can be vastly improved through extensions to the diagrams used to model them. An extension to the UML design notation to better represent ...

This article looks at some of the abstractions in a new profile of UML, the RT-Profile, which particularly affects software design for real-time use. Included in the paper are a set of patterns that ...

A design pattern is a well-established and documented ... an object in ways that are distinct from one another. Here is a UML diagram that depicts what the factory’s operations might look ...

However, UML 2.0 is many months from being released ... The use of ports is a design pattern (see "ROOM Design Pattern" in Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Architecture for Real-Time Systems ...

This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...

Typical usage patterns of UML subsets in the field ... several significant and ongoing efforts are focused on customizing UML toward SoC design. With the emergence of methodologies and the ...

SysML, the dedicated system level UML-based notation proposed by the OMG, is gaining a lot of momentum as a system level design standard. Design productivity is one of the main challenges facing the ...