Asynchronous Active Objects (AAOs), primarily exemplied by actors [1], nowadays exist in many forms (various kinds of actors, agents and components) and are more and more used beca...
Several features such as reconfiguration, voltage and frequency scaling, low-power operating states, duty-cycling, etc. are exploited for latency and energy efficient application ...
Multimedia communication systems require not only high-performance computer hardware and highspeed networks, but also a buffer management mechanism to process voluminous data effi...
Cyber-physical systems increasingly rely on dynamically adaptive programs to respond to changes in their physical environment; examples include ecosystem monitoring and disaster r...
Despite the fact that various means of communication such as mobile phones, instant messenger and e-mail are now widespread; many romantic couples separated by long distances worr...