Several design patterns are defined to make systems more flexible and extensible. The main goal of this work is to show how the representation of these kinds of patterns, which we refer to as ...

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 ...

Besides using Java to implement design patterns, this column will also use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to portray static relationships between classes and dynamic interactions between objects ...