Current Quality-of-Service (QoS) predictions methods for component-based software systems disregard the influence of the operational profile for anticipating an architecture’s performance, reliability, security or safety. The operational profile captures the set of inputs and outputs to a software components. We argue, that a detailed operational profile especially for software components is ne...

OBJECTIVES To describe a novel calibration technique for photographs of different sizes and to test a new method of chin evaluation in relation to established analysis measurements. DESIGN A photograph analysis and medical record review of 14 patients who underwent combined rhinoplasty and chin correction at an academic center. Patients undergoing concurrent orthognathic surgery, rhytidectomy...

The diversity of multi-agent systems creates the need for tools and methodologies to achieve their designs. UML has been proposed as a new approach for agent modeling, yet it does not support the concept of agents. This paper describes a UML profile that we defined for Multi-Agent Systems MAS. In order to support the definition of this profile the ArgoUML tool was extended. The extended tool al...

This paper analyzes the effect of input profile selection on software testing using the concept of fault detectability profile. It shows that optimality of the input profile during testing depends on factors such as the planned testing effort and the fault detectability profile. To achieve ultra-reliable software, selecting test input uniformly among different input domains is preferred. On the...

Multimedia technology is increasingly being used to create reliable and effective communication environments. However, the design of multimedia applications is currently driven more by intuition than by empirically or theoretically derived design guidelines. In a multimedia application, the software architecture is defined as a set of components manipulating various multimedia data types with s...

The paper analyzes one component of "smart technologies" – a model for program execution environment verification that employs software meta-data descriptions of quality requirements to ensure the conformity of characteristics of the surrounding environment to those necessary. The study is based on practical software deployment and maintenance experience in areas where the production environmen...

A design pattern describes a general solution to a design problem that recurs repeatedly in many projects. Software designers adapt the pattern solution to their specific project. Design patterns are usually modeled using UML. However, UML does not keep track of pattern-related information when a design pattern is applied or composed with other patterns. Thus, it is hard for a designer to ident...