Abstract—As smart phones grow in popularity, manufacturers are in a race to pack an increasingly rich set of features into these tiny devices. This brings additional complexity i...
Mechatronic systems are embedded software systems with hard real-time requirements. Predictability is of paramount importance for these systems. Thus, their design has to take the...
Sven Burmester, Matthias Gehrke, Holger Giese, Sim...
While large grids are currently supporting the work of thousands of scientists, very little is known about their actual use. Due to strict organizational permissions, there are fe...
Alexandru Iosup, Hui Li, Mathieu Jan, Shanny Anoep...
This paper reports on the utilisation of object technology in a university-level course on software development, specifically designed for distance learning, and now enrolling ove...
Mark Woodman, Robert Griffiths, Simon Holland, Hug...
An effective approach for energy conservation in wireless sensor networks is scheduling sleep intervals for extraneous nodes, while the remaining nodes stay active to provide cont...