Composite provides a uniform way to create trees that represent part-whole hierarchies. The idea behind this pattern is to make independent Composite objects form its components. Thus, the pattern ...

Robert Deaves, Andrew Jones, Peter Steiglitz, Martin Habets and Stuart Ryan from STMicroelectronics Abstract: This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference ...

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 ...