Performance evaluation is a central issue in the design of complex real-time systems. In this work, we propose an extension of socalled "Max-Plus" algebraic techniques to...
Contemporary product design and process development is based on an iterative specify-evaluate-revise approach which is often time intensive and therein non-responsive to customer ...
Max Blair, Steven R. LeClair, Jeffrey V. Zweber, A...
Since 1986 we have investigated the problems and possibilities of applying modern information retrieval methods to large online public access library catalogs (OPACs). In the Retr...
Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Eskinder Sahle, A...
Separation of concerns has been central to software engineering for decades, yet its many advantages are still not fully realized. A key reason is that traditional modularization ...
Peri L. Tarr, William H. Harrison, Harold Ossher, ...
Code sandboxing is useful for many purposes, but most sandboxing techniques require kernel modifications, do not completely isolate guest code, or incur substantial performance co...