Order and Containment in Concurrent System Design by John Sidney Davis II Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California at Berkeley Professor Edward A. Lee, Chair This dissertation considers the difficulty of modeling and designing complex, concurrent systems. The term concurrent is used here to mean a system consisting of a network of ...

Order and Containment in Concurrent System Design by John Sidney Davis II Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering-Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California at Berkeley Professor Edward A. Lee, Chair This dissertation considers the difficulty of modeling and designing complex, concurrent systems. The term concurrent is used here to mean a system consisting of a network of ...

Cyber-physical systems are multidisciplinary systems which involve different engineering disciplines in their design. Each engineering discipline tends to use its own domain-specific languages and tools to model different aspects of a system concurrently. The concurrent modelling process may introduce inconsistencies due to lack of common knowledge and communication among domain experts. Especi...

Although the concept of concurrent engineering has been widely applied in the manufacturing industry, there is growing awareness and interest in the adoption of Concurrent Engineering (CE) in the Construction Industry because CE has the potential to make construction projects less fragmented, reduce project duration, improve project quality, reduce total project cost and increase project compet...

Concurrent engineering facilities (CEFs) are successfully used in the aeropsace sector to design systems and services that that fulfill the requirements. Model-­‐based systems engineering (MBSE) enables the effective (i.e., unambiguous) communication in the collaborative activitie...

For many years computer-based concurrent engineering of products, denoted as Virtual Engineering (VE), has been developed to meet requirements in product development. Current research in concurrent engineering deals with the integration and synchronization of domain-specific (CAD design, simulation analysis) data and tools. This paper focuses on a flexible, multidimensional data model that inte...

Software engineering courses are expected to teach students a wide range of knowledge and skills, e.g. software-development methodologies, tools, work habits, collaboration skills, a good sense of scheduling, etc. In this paper, we present a method to track the progress of students developing a term project, using the historical information stored in their CVS repository. This information is an...

The business segment of Japanese companies such as Toshiba changed drastically for the last several years. This means that companies should change their culture and need new product development process applying information technologies. This paper presents examples of design technologies that realize the innovative product development process in Toshiba focused on an electromechanical product d...

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study implications of having a parallel-by-default programming language. This includes language design, runtime system, performance and software engineering considerations. We hope that the work helps to advance concurrent programming in modern programming environments.