Advances in VLSI technology have shown that there is a high potential for the development of computational systems reusing components with sophisticated design. Most of the existing design methods do not take advantage of the object oriented technology initially developed to satisfy the software engineering requirements. This paper proposes a new method of designing hardware/software systems, w...

In the current cautious business climate, development of large new software has become rarer as the cost pressure has increased. User interfaces (UI), the most important part of a system for end users and critical for system success, remain notoriously user-unfriendly. This makes it imperative to identify practical tools that small software projects can use to help them maximise UI design quali...

The goal of my graduate research has been finding architectural solutions to key technological challenges facing processor design that impact reliability, power, and performance of multicores. The rapidly shrinking feature sizes provided by the Moore’s Law with each successive technology generation make the devices on a chip increasingly susceptible to soft errors, hard errors, process variatio...

Design patterns and frameworks have become important concepts in object development. As well important is UML as the standard modeling language. But there is not sufficient support to model design patterns and frameworks in design class diagrams (DCDs) without using the extension mechanisms, that is, stereotypes, constraints, and tagged values. Some approaches have been developed to improve the...

The growing popularity of mobile devices gave birth to a still emergent research field, called Mobile Music , and concerning the development of musical applications for use in these devices. Our particular research investigates interaction design within this field, taking into account relationships with ubiquitous computing contexts, and applying knowledge from several disciplines, mainly Compu...