Add to ORKGAbstract—A resource usage view consists of models that are important assets to analyze and control usage of hardware resources such as processors and memory elements. In this paper, we present the application of a top-down approach to construct a resource usage view using actual system runtime information. The models in this view help to address the con-cerns of a resource usage viewpoint providing information in terms of system-specific architecture and design execution elements such as execution scenarios, tasks, software compo-nents, processes, and threads. As part of our validation, con-structing a resource usage view of an MRI system, a represen-tative large software-intensive system, we observed that the constructed models for this vi...