Three years ago the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) decided to embrace netnews as a site-wide, multi-platform communications tool for the laboratory’s diverse user com...
In contention-based sensor networks, nodes compete to access a shared channel for data transmission and collision is a common challenge. For power conservation, periodical active/s...
Cost-effective engineering and evolution of complex software must involve the different stakeholders concurrently and collaboratively. The hard problem is providing computer suppo...
business requirement in the real world cannot be abstracted correctly into an entity-relationship schema. Once core entities are discovered, we can obtain an Entity-Relationship Di...
In order to facilitate incremental modeling and analysis of fault-tolerant embedded systems, we introduce an object analysis pattern, called the detector pattern, that provides a ...