Spreadsheets are heavily employed in administration, financial forecasting, education, and science because of their intuitive, flexible, and direct approach to computation. They r...
A case study of performance and dependability evaluation of fault-tolerant multiprocessors is presented. Two specific architectures are analyzed taking into account system functio...
Survivability is a crucial property for computer systems that support critical infrastructures of our society. A variety of survivability definitions and evaluation methods for t...
A hierarchical modeling framework for the dependability evaluation of Internet-based applications is presented and illustrated on a travel agency example. Modeling is carried out ...
In this paper, we report about a new interactionoriented robot, which communicates with humans and will participate in human society as our partner. For realizing such a robot, we...