In this paper we investigate the development of an embedded and mobile geographic information system. Its main characteristics concern the possibility to access various informatio...
Multimedia applications have dynamic and adaptive realtime requirements. Current scheduling practice, as typified by UNIX System V Release 4, lacks the necessary information and ...
Reconfigurable hardware devices are envisioned as the proper platform to implement multimedia applications, providing both real time performance and dynamic adaptability for the a...
Automatic memory management or garbage collection greatly simplifies development of large systems. However, garbage collection is usually not used in real-time systems due to the u...
In this paper, we describe completed and ongoing work towards an interactive multimedia system that will appeal to today’s youth culture identified as most likely to adopt such ...