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Die Telekommunikation und die ihr zuliefernde Industrie stellen einen softwareintensiven Bereich dar - der durch einen sehr hohen Anteil von Eigenentwicklungen gekennzeichnet ist. Eine wesentliche Ursache dafür sind spezielle Anforderungen an Telekommunikationssoftwaresysteme, die i.allg. nicht durch Standardsoftwareprodukte sichergestellt werden können. Diese Anforderungen ergeben sich aus den besonderen Eigenschaften solcher Softwaresysteme wie die Verteilung der Komponenten von Softwaresystemen sowie die Verteilung der Entwicklung dieser Komponenten, die Heterogenität der Entwicklungs- und Einsatzumgebungen für diese Komponenten und die Komplexität der entwickelten Softwaresysteme hinsichtlich nichtfunktionaler Charakteristika. Die industrielle Entwicklung von Telekommunikationssoftwaresystemen ist ein schwieriger und bisher nicht zufriedenstellend gelöster Prozeß. Aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten thematisieren Softwareentwicklungsprozesse und -techniken sowie unterstützende Werkzeuge zur Erstellung und Integration wiederverwendbarer Softwarekomponenten ("Componentware"). Das Ziel dieser Dissertation besteht in der Unterstützung der industriellen Entwicklung offener, verteilter Telekommunikationssoftwaresysteme. Dazu wird die Entwicklungstechnik Objektorientierte Modellierung mit dem Einsatz von Komponentenarchitekturen durch die automatische Ableitung von Softwarekomponenten aus Modellen zusammengeführt. Die zentrale Idee ist dabei eine präzise Definition der zur Entwicklung von verteilten Softwaresystemen einsetzbaren Modellierungskonzepte in Form eines Metamodells. Von diesem Metamodell ausgehend werden dann zur Konstruktion und Darstellung objektorientierter Entwurfsmodelle eine graphische und eine textuelle Notation definiert. Da die Notationen die Konzepte des Meta- Modells visualisieren, haben sie diesem gegenüber einen sekundären Charakter. Für die Transformation von Entwurfsmodellen in ausführbare Applikationen wurde auf der Grundlage von CORBA eine Komponentenplattform realisiert, die zusätzlich zu Interaktionen zwischen verteilten Softwarekomponenten auch Entwicklungs-, Deployment- und Ausführungsaspekte unterstützt. Wiederum ausgehend vom Metamodell wird durch die Anwendung wohldefinierter Ableitungsregeln die automatische Überführung von Entwurfsmodellen in Softwarekomponenten des zu entwickelnden Systems ermöglicht. Die von den Autoren erarbeiteten Konzeptionen und Vorgehensweisen wurden praktisch in eine Werkzeugumgebung umgesetzt, die sich bereits erfolgreich in verschiedenen Softwareentwicklungsprojekten bewährt hat. / The telecommunication industry and their suppliers form a software intensive domain. In addition, a high percentage of the software is developed by the telecommunication enterprises themselves. A main contributing factor for this situation are specific requirements to telecommunication software systems which cannot be fulfilled by standard off-the-shelf products. These requirements result from particular properties of those software systems, e.g. distributed development and execution of their components, heterogeneity of execution and development environments and complex non-functional characteristics like scalability, reliability, security and manageability. The development of telecommunication software systems is a complex process and currently not satisfactory realized. Actual research topics in this arena are software development processes and development techniques as well as tools which support the creation and integration of reusable software components (component ware). The goal of this thesis work is the support of the industrial development and manufacturing of open distributed telecommunication software systems. For that purpose, the development technique object oriented modelling and the implementation technique usage of component architectures are combined. The available modelling concepts are precisely defined as a metamodel. Based on that metamodel, graphical and textual notations for the presentation of models are developed. To enable a smooth transition from object oriented models into executable components a component architecture based on CORBA was also developed as part of the thesis. This component architecture covers besides the interaction support for distributed components deployment and execution aspects. Again on the basis of the metamodel code generation rules are defined which allow to automate the transition from models to components. The development techniques described in this thesis have been implemented as a tool chain. This tool chain has been successfully used in several software development projects.

National Programme on Micro and Smart Materials and Systems (NPMASS) / A computer-aided technique is developed in this thesis to systematically generate concepts for sensors of a wide variety. A database of building blocks, based on physical laws and effects that capture the transduction rules underlying the working principles of sensors, has been developed to synthesize concepts. The proposed method uses the database to first create a concept-space graph and then selects concepts that correspond to paths in the graph. This is in contrast to and more efficient than existing methods, such as, compositional synthesis and graph-grammar synthesis, where solution paths are laid out first and then a concept-space graph is generated. The research also explores an approach for synthesis of concepts for closed-loop sensors, where a quantity is sensed indirectly after nullifying its effect by using negative feedback. These sensors use negative feedback to increase the dynamic range of operation without compromising the sensitivity and resolution. According to the literature, generation of un-interesting solutions is a major drawback of the building block-based synthesis approaches. In the proposed approach, this shortcoming is mitigated substantially by using some rules. For a number of the concepts generated, in the sensor problems attempted, we found that those concepts were already implemented in existing patents; thus emphasising the usefulness of the concepts produced. The synthesis approach proposed new, feasible sensor concepts, thereby indicating its potential as a stimulator for enhancing creativity of designers. Another important problem is to improve the robustness of designs. Robustness can be achieved by minimizing the side effects. Side effects are defined as unwanted effects that affect the intended working of the sensor. The research presents an algorithm that (a) predicts the potential side effects for the synthesized concepts of sensors; (b) aids in quantifying the magnitude of the side effects, thus helping the designer to predict the significant side effects; and (c) suggests ways to improve the robustness of the design.