Abstract--Presence, broadly defined as an event publishnotification infrastructure for converged applications, has emerged as a key mechanism for collecting and disseminating conte...
In response to the limitations of the Internet architecture when used for applications for which it was not originally designed, a series of clean slate efforts have emerged to sh...
Abstract. Software systems are today one of the most complex artifacts, they are simultaneously used by hundred-thousand of people sometimes in risk real time operations, such as a...
Abstract—Microfluidics-based biochips are revolutionizing highthroughput sequencing, parallel immunoassays, clinical diagnostics, and drug discovery. These devices enable the pre...
The basic theory of supervisory control of discrete-event systems is extended with the notion of templates, which simplifies the modeling of controllers since one can work with co...