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This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...

Even though I have Team Suite MSDN subscription, since we run VS2008 apparently we can't use the "reverse engineer solution to Visio UML class diagrams" functionality that VS2005 had. Thanks Microsoft ...

In the first article in this series, we introduced the notion of an executable UML, but we did not describe the elements of which it consists. These elements must be sufficiently primitive to be ...