Abstract— The migration away from power-hungry, speculative execution procesors towards manycore architectures is good news for the embedded and real-time systems community. Comm...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
Current object-oriented approaches to distributed programs may be criticized in several respects. First, method calls are generally synchronous, which leads to much waiting in dis...
Distributing pieces of knowledge in large, usually distributed organizations is a central problem in Knowledge and Organization management. Policies for distributing knowledge and...
Synchronous Dataflow (SDF) is a powerful analysis tool for regular, cyclic, parallel task graphs. The behaviour of SDF graphs however is static and therefore not always able to ac...