Technology--the collection of devices and methods available to human society--evolves by constructing new devices and methods from ones that previously exist, and in turn offering...
The model-based methodology has proven to be effective for fast and low-cost development of embedded software. In the model-based development process, transforming a software stru...
Predicting how well applications may run on modern systems is becoming increasingly challenging. It is no longer sufficient to look at number of floating point operations and commu...
As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of software that can deal wit...
Time-triggered systems are distributed systems in which the nodes are independently-clocked but maintain synchrony with one another. Time-triggered protocols depend on the synchro...