the level of abstraction in system design promises to enable faster exploration of the design space at early stages. While scheduling decision for embedded software has great impa...
Performance model building is essential to predict the ability of an application to satisfy given levels of performance or to support the search for viable alternatives. Using aut...
Maintenance activities are made more difficult when pointers are heavily used in source code: the programmer needs to build a mental model of memory locations and of the way they ...
Dynamic loading of software components (e.g., libraries or modules) is a widely used mechanism for improved system modularity and flexibility. Correct component resolution is cri...
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their...