The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz Qo...
Specialized clustered very large instruction word (VLIW) processors combined with effective compilation techniques enable aggressive exploitation of the high instruction-level para...
Viktor S. Lapinskii, Margarida F. Jacome, Gustavo ...
Well understood methods exist for developing programs from formal specifications. Not only do such methods offer a precise check that certain sorts of deviations from their specifi...
System-level design methods specifically targeted towards multimedia applications have recently received a lot of attention. Multimedia workloads are known to have a high degree o...