Abstract. Large information spaces and complex functionality of contemporary systems together with the advent of the Semantic Web are big challenges for the design of simple yet po...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...
There has, in recent years, been growing interest in Model Driven Engineering (MDE), in which models are the primary design artifacts and transformations are applied to these mode...
Software development is a complex and error-prone task. An important factor during the development of complex systems is the understanding of the dependencies that exist between d...
Scheduling of processes in mixed batch/continuous plants, due to their hybrid nature can become very complex. This paper presents the Timed Hybrid Petri net (THPN) as a suitable t...