When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
The Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) of a hardware structure is the probability that a fault in the structure will affect the output of a program. AVF captures both microa...
If motion estimation can choose the most suitable algorithm according to the changing characteristics of input image signals, we can get benefits, which improve quality and perfor...
Early performance analysis based on Queueing Network Models (QNM) has been often proposed to support software designers during the software development process. These approaches a...
Complex toolsets can be difficult to use. User interfaces can help by guiding users through the alternative choices that might be possible at any given time, but this tends to loc...
Timothy J. Sliski, Matthew P. Billmers, Lori A. Cl...