This is the ISIS-ESCHER Glossary page.
| Term | Definition | |
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| ACE | The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE). (top) | |
| AIF | The Analysis Interchange Format (AIF) provides a mechanism for sharing models of embedded systems among modeling and analysis tools. It supports the physical representation of the system, i.e., how the system maps to processors. (top) | |
| AMC | Automated Model Compiler (AMC), based on DESERT.
"A model compiler is a tool that automatically composes a model from a set of sub-models and an architectural description of the arrangement of sub-models, ensuring full-connectivity of all control flow and data flow signals between sub-models, proper sequencing of sub-models, and compatibility of sub-models" Butts et. al. "Usage Scenarios for an Automated Model Compiler," EMSOFT 2001. (top) |
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| ARMS | Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Systems (ARMS) Program: A DARPA program to develop transparent real-time fault-tolerant middleware. (top) | |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). (top) | |
| COTS | Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software. (top) | |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is an open source SCM. (top) | |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (top) | |
| Defect Tracking | Defect Tracking, common known as bug tracking, e.g., Bugzilla or those found at testingfaqs.org, used to track features, issues, and bugs during the software development life-cycle. (top) | |
| DESERT | The Design Space Exploration Tool (DESERT). (top) | |
| DOC Group | Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group is a distributed research consortium whos purpose of the DOC group is to support advanced R&D on distributed object computing middleware using an open source software development model. This model allows academics, developers, and end-users to participate in leading-edge R&D projects driven by the free market of ideas, requirements, and resources. (top) | |
| EHS | NSF Embedded and Hybrid Systems (EHS) Program. (top) | |
| ESCHER | The Embedded Systems Consortium for Hybrid and Embedded Systems Research (ESCHER) Institute's mission is to provide services that promote the transition of government funded Information Technology Research and Development results to industry. (top) | |
| ESCM | The Embedded Systems Component Model (ESCM), renamed PRISM,is an interchange format defined for exchanging component models between Rational Rose and ESML. (top) | |
| ESML | The Embedded System Modeling Language (ESML) is a toolsuite to build applications for Boeing's Bold Stroke Framework. (top) | |
| GME | The Generic Modeling Environment (GME) is a configurable toolkit for creating domain-specific modeling and program synthesis environments. The configuration is accomplished through metamodels specifying the modeling paradigm (modeling language) of the application domain, and the metamodeling language is based on the UML class diagram notation and OCL constraints. (top) | |
| GReAT | The Graph Rewrite And Transformation (GReAT) tool suite is a metamodel based graph transformation language useful for the specification and implementation of model-to-model transformations. (top) | |
| HSIF | The Hybrid Systems Interchange Format (HSIF) is an interchange format for hybrid system models that can be shared between modeling and analysis tools. HSIF models represent dynamic systems, whose dynamics includes both continuous and discrete behaviors. (top) | |
| ISIS | The Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS). (top) | |
| Java | Java is an object oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. (top) | |
| JIRA | JIRA is a Java based issue and bug tracking application. It is used here to track issues specific to this site as well as ones related to multiple tools. (top) | |
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture (MDA). (top) | |
| MGA | The MultiGraph Architecture (MGA) provides a unified software architecture and framework for building domain-specific tools for: (1) building, testing, and storing domain models, (2) transforming the models into executable programs and/or extracting information for system engineering tools, and (3) integrating applications on heterogeneous parallel/distributed computing platforms. (top) | |
| MIC | Model-Integrated Computing (MIC) addresses the problems of developing software integrated systems by providing rich, domain-specific modeling environments including model analysis and model-based program synthesis tools. This technology is used to create and evolve integrated, multiple-aspect models using concepts, relations, and model composition principles routinely used in the specific field, to facilitate systems/software engineering analysis of the models, and to automatically synthesize applications from the models. MIC has been used to develop many different technologies and solutions for industry and government. Please browse our updated web presense for more details of our technology, research, and projects. (top) | |
| MIPS | Model-integrated program synthesis (MIPS). (top) | |
| MoBIES | Model-Based Integration of Embedded Systems (MoBIES) Program. (top) | |
| MOF | Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is a set of standard interfaces that can be used to define and manipulate a set of interoperable meta-models and their corresponding models. It is intended to provide an open-ended information modeling capability. (top) | |
| NEST | Networked Embedded Software Technology (NEST) is a DARPA project. (top) | |
| NSF | National Science Foundation (NSF). (top) | |
| OCL | The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is used to specify constraints on objects in UML. (top) | |
| OEP | An Open Experimental Platform (OEP) is a hardware/software laboratory environment incorporating COTS infrastructure and representative applications operating in it, which can be modified and augmented with technology and application innovations, toward evaluating their contribution to technical challenges in that context. (top) | |
| ORB | Object Request Broker (ORB). (top) | |
| OSI | Open Source Initiative (OSI). (top) | |
| OTIF | Open Tool Integration Framework, now know as WOTIF. (top) | |
| PCES | Program Composition of Embedded Systems (PCES). (top) | |
| PRISM | PRISM, formerly know as ESCM, is an interchange format for exchanging component models between Rational Rose and ESML. (top) | |
| Ptolemy | The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components. The key underlying principle in the project is the use of well-defined models of computation that govern the interaction between components. A major problem area being addressed is the use of heterogeneous mixtures of models of computation. A software system called Ptolemy II is being constructed in Java. The work is conducted in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. (top) | |
| QoS | Quality of Service (QoS) is a collection of policies and mechanisms designed to control and enhance communication properties, such as bandwidth, latency, and jitter. -- Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, Schmidt, Doug, et al. (top) | |
| SCM | Source-code management (SCM), e.g., CVS. (top) | |
| SEC | DARPA Software Enabled Control (SEC) Project. (top) | |
| SRML | Software Radio Modeling Language (SRML). (top) | |
| TAO | The ACE ORB (TAO), and implementation of the OMG CORBA specification. (top) | |
| TinyOS | TinyOS is a component-based runtime environment designed to provide support for deeply embedded systems with extreme hardware restrictions. (top) | |
| TNA | A Task Network Architecture (TNA) model is part of the ESML modelling language. (top) | |
| Tool Chain | A set of tools used together to create a software artifact. (top) | |
| UDM | The Universal Data Model (UDM) framework is a development process and set of tools used to generate C++ API from XML representations of UML diagrams. The API can be used to read/write XML files, GME databases, etc. (top) | |
| UML | The Univeral Modeling Language (UML) is a non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. UML is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system under development. The UML represents a compilation of "best engineering practices" which have proven successful in modelling large, complex systems. (top) | |
| WOTIF | Web-based Open Tool Integration Framework (WOTIF), formerly know as OTIF. (top) | |
| XML | The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. (top) |
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