MARTE — Enhance the concept of Observer in GQAM

Subject: Enhance the concept of Observer in GQAM. Details: The concept of observer is definitely useful although limited to timing and latency. There should be a way to support (at least) throughput and capacity observers. Maybe a more generic mechanism would be useful here?

After significant discussion it was agreed in a telecon that the existing stereotype has the desired generality. The necessary extensions should be applied to the existing observer by users, as they need them, rather than trying to define something that will satisfy all needs. All that is needed is to describe this process of extension, and to rename the TimingObserver to TimedObserver, signifying an observation over an interval of time.