While context-awareness has been found to be effective for decision support in complex domains, most of such decision support systems are hard-coded, incurring significant develop...
This paper outlines the theoretical concept of a study currently under way in China. Its main idea is to explore the sustainability of centralized inter-organizational systems for...
Major hardware and software vendors are curious about transactional memory (TM), but are understandably cautious about committing to hardware changes. Our thesis is that deconstru...
Mark D. Hill, Derek Hower, Kevin E. Moore, Michael...
anguage (Event B), hence staying at the same abstraction level. Thus we take advantage from the Event B method: (i) it is possible to use the method during the whole development pr...
process: Designers must define higher abstraction levels that allow system modeling. They must use description languages that handle both hardware and software components to descri...