With the advent of aspect-oriented programming, the need for adequate techniques for handling aspect-oriented artifacts in the early phases of the software engineering process has emerged. In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented language extension for an integrated modeling language based on object models. We present the way aspect constructs can be handled in requirements and architectura...

An approach for tight coupling of process models and software development tools — with the metaphor of component-based software development environments — supporting “eXecutable Process Models” (XPM) is presented. In this paper, we focus on the direction from the components of a software development environment towards the process models in order to automatically acquire process model informati...

This paper presents the structure and contents of an integrated curriculum on teaching enterprise modeling for master students at a large German university. The module is composed of two main master classes (Business Engineering and Enterprise Modeling) and supplemented by an additional seminar and the final master thesis. The major classes respectively consist of twelve lectures and a large pr...

Integrated development environments are essential for efficient realization of complex industrial products, typically consisting of both software and hardware components. Powerful equationbased object-oriented (EOO) languages such as Modelica are successfully used for modeling and virtual prototyping increasingly complex physical systems and components, whereas software modeling approaches like...

This paper presents the Dsml4mas Development Environment (DDE) which is a model-driven framework for the development of multiagent systems based on the Domain Specific Modeling Language for Multiagent Systems (Dsml4mas).

For most applications, data-intensive applications in particular, dialog modeling makes little sense without a domain model. Since domain models usually are developed and used outside the dialog modeling activity, it is better to integrate dialog modeling languages with existing domain modeling languages and tools, than inventing your own. This paper describes how the Diamodl language, editor a...

Hardware/Software systems nd an ever increasing market. The modeling, partitioning, (co-)simulation and synthesis of such systems requires a uniform language of description for hardware and software on all levels of design. This article presents such a language in form of Java. The article concentrates on the qualiication for modeling and simulation of this language with respect to hardware. It...

in recent years, formal methods have been used as an important tool for performance evaluation and verification of a wide range of systems. in the view points of engineers and practitioners, however, there are still some major difficulties in using formal methods. in this paper, we introduce a new formal modeling language to fill the gaps between object-oriented programming languages (oopls) us...

Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the nearest antecedent technology (object-oriented software development) and using artifacts to support the development environment throughout the full system lifecycle. We address both of these requirements using AUML, the Agent UML (Unified Modeling Language) — a set of UML idioms and extensions. This paper...

In this paper we present an object-oriented approach and a development environment for the system-level hardware/software co-design design of computation intensive applications using reconfigurable computer architectures. We use the Unified Modeling Language for the specification, modeling, and visualization throughout all phases of development. In this way we address a number of problems which...