Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) is widely perceived as an emerging platform for distributed systems development. In this paper, we discuss CORBA's testing, ...
We present integration mechanisms for combining heterogeneous components in a situated information processing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a h...
Nick Hawes, Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Michael Zi...
Cutting-edge applications of future embedded systems demand highest processor performance with low power consumption to get acceptable battery-life times. Therefore, low power opt...
Anupam Chattopadhyay, B. Geukes, David Kammler, Er...
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...