Pervasive computing, with its focus on users and their tasks rather than on computing devices and technology, provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. But, while...
Robert Grimm, Thomas E. Anderson, Brian N. Bershad...
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
Today, bibliographical information is kept in a variety of digital libraries available on the Internet. The integration of bibliographical data is considered as one of the most im...
We propose a periodic diagnostic algorithm based on the testing model of computation for real-time systems. The diagnostic task runs on every processor of the system. When the task...
— Program code size is a critical factor in determining the manufacturing cost of many embedded systems, particularly those aimed at the extremely costconscious consumer market. ...