In an interactive embedded system, special task execution patterns and scheduling constraints exist due to frequent human-computer interactions. This paper proposes a transaction-...
: We present an architecture and prototype implementation of a performance management system for cluster-based web services. The system supports multiple classes of web services tr...
Ronald M. Levy, Jay Nagarajarao, Giovanni Pacifici...
This paper investigates the integration of the employee timetabling and production scheduling problems. At the first level, we manage a classical employee timetabling problem. At ...
We propose a distributed on-demand power-management protocol for collecting data in sensor networks. The protocol aims to reduce power consumption while supporting fluctuating dem...
A common method for dealing with overload conditions in periodic task systems is to reduce the load by enlarging activation periods. When a periodic task implements a digital cont...
Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Manel Velasco, Pau Mart&iacut...