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EMSOFT
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Interface Theories for Component-Based Design
Abstract. We classify component-based models of computation into component models and interface models. A component model speci es for each component how the component behaves in a...
Luca de Alfaro, Thomas A. Henzinger
COMSWARE
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
OASiS: A Programming Framework for Service-Oriented Sensor Networks
Abstract— Wireless sensor networks consist of small, inexpensive devices which interact with the environment, communicate with each other, and perform distributed computations in...
Manish Kushwaha, Isaac Amundson, Xenofon D. Koutso...
PPSN
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
RTCSA
2000
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Frame packing in real-time communication
A common computational model in distributed embedded systems is that the nodes exchange signals via a network. Most often a signal represents the state of some physical device and...
Kristian Sandström, Christer Norström, M...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
116views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Web Accessibility for the Blind: Corporate Social Responsibility or Litigation Avoidance?
On September 5, 2006, a legal precedent was set for web accessibility. Federal judge Marilyn Patel sustained discrimination claims by the National Federation for the Blind against...
Jonathan Frank