There are many methodological approaches for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, each one focusing on some features of multi-agent systems, but leaving others underdefined. For t...
When modifying or debugging a software system, among other tasks, developers must often understand and manipulate source code that crosscuts the system’s structure. These tasks ...
We consider the standard secure multi-party multiplication protocol due to M. Rabin. This protocol is based on Shamir’s secret sharing scheme and it can be viewed as a practical ...
Abstract: This paper proposes a strategy to manage the schedulability of realtime component-based applications that is fully compatible with the concept of component viewed as a re...
With the advent of system-on-a-chip design, many application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) now require multiple design clocks that operate asynchronously to each other. This...