Manufacturers need to evaluate the reliability of their products in order to increase the customer satisfaction. Proper analysis of reliability also requires an effective study of the failure process of a product, especially its failure time. So, the Failure Process Modeling (FPM) plays a key role in the reliability analysis of the system that has been less focused on. This paper introduces a f...

Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSML) play a key role in model-driven development. There are many approaches how to create a DSML. Recent trends in domain-specific modeling languages and issues of creating and using UML profiles are discussed in this paper. Then we present a novel approach for defining a full-featured DSML based on a UML profile and its customization instead of heavyweight ...

For the last few years Sybase Company [SYB] proved its commitment to improving business modeling by creating integrated infrastructure for modeling enterprise businesses. Thanks to the incorporation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services and business process execution languages, Sybase has significantly extended business modeling in almost every direction. This article is intended...

In order to make model-driven product line engineering a reality, variability and feature modeling techniques are necessary, but not sufficient. Adequate tool support is of equal importance, and presents its own set of challenges. In this paper, we present an approach to the activities of modeling product lines, defining and verifying products, and exporting product models. Our approach pioneer...

manufacturers need to evaluate the reliability of their products in order to increase the customer satisfaction. proper analysis of reliability also requires an effective study of the failure process of a product, especially its failure time. so, the failure process modeling (fpm) plays a key role in the reliability analysis of the system that has been less focused on. this paper introduces a f...

UML is the main modeling language used in model-driven development (MDD). In many cases, UMLbased modeling systems need to be extended by plug-ins to support different modeling approaches. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for model-driven development of plug-ins, which enables reuse of UML modeling capabilities for defining executable plug-in models. This approach suggests that UML-ba...

Architectural limitations in many situations make it necessary for the RC shear walls to be extended in plan in different directions at a single location that makes them a 3D configuration. Analysis of such walls is very challenging. In this research about 450 cases of 3D shear walls are considered with different shapes and heights. L, T and H-shape walls are studied. They are nonlinearly analy...

An approach is proposed to represent functionally defined multidimensional shapes as multimedia objects. A multimedia object can be described using 2D/3D world coordinates, visual, audio, haptic and other "multimedia coordinates". We introduce a space mapping between geometric coordinates and multimedia coordinates. The approach is supported by the interactive modeling system which integrates h...