To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...
Resource management has been an area of research in ad hoc grids for many years. Recently, different research projects have focused resource management in centralized, decentralize...
Efficient implementation of DSP applications is critical for many embedded systems. Optimising C compilers for embedded processors largely focus on code generation and instructio...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...