Resource management is a precondition to build reliable, extensible middleware and to host potentially untrusted user components. Resource accounting allows to charge users for the...
Message Sequence Charts (MSC) have been traditionally used to depict execution scenarios in the early stages of design cycle. MSCs portray inter-process ( inter-object) interactio...
Bluetooth is an emerging technology in wireless applications, and many related issues are yet to be explored both in academia and industry. Because of the complexity and the dynam...
—This paper introduces a new high-rate analysis of the multiple description scalar quantizer (MDSQ) with balanced descriptions. The analysis provides insight into the structure o...
Dealing with damage that arises during operation of networked information systems is essential if such systems are to provide the dependability required by modern critical applica...
John C. Knight, Jonathan Hill, Philip E. Varner, P...