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 ...

Earlier this year, members of the OMG adopted the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 infrastructure. While work is proceeding apace on the language, one problem screams for attention: It is not ...

For chip architects and designers, the SysML dialect of UML could be useful, but the ROI hurdle is not likely to be scaled in the near future. At some point down the road in the realm of system-level ...