Component-Based Development (CBD) of software, with its successes in enterprise computing, has the promise of being a good development model due to its cost effectiveness and pote...
We address the problem of making online, parallel query plans fault-tolerant: i.e., provide intra-query fault-tolerance without blocking. We develop an approach that not only achi...
This paper promotes compositional reasoning in the context of safety-critical systems, and demonstrates a safety-oriented component model using an application from the automotive ...
Interactive systems, games, VR and multimedia systems require more and more flexible Virtual Humans with individualities. There are mainly two approaches: 1) Recording the motion u...
As the next generation network begins to incorporate the Internet, telecommunication and TV services, it becomes one of the most critical infrastructures for our society. Routers c...