Multimedia applications are emerging in education, information dissemination, entertainment, as well as many other applications. The stringent requirements of such applications ma...
Construction of complex software systems with largely off-the-shelf components has become a reality with the wide availability and acceptance of component frameworks and distribut...
William J. McIver Jr., Karim Keddara, Christian Oc...
Virtual types have been proposed as a notation for generic programming in object-oriented languages—an alternative to the more familiar mechanism of parametric classes. The trade...
While it is widely believed that preemptability is a necessary requirement for developing real-time software, there are additional costs involved with preemptive scheduling, as co...
The concept of design patterns has recently emerged as a new paradigm in the context of object-oriented design methodology. Similar ideas are being explored in other areas of compu...