Agent-based programming comes us as a next generation programming paradigm. However, we have not been ready yet to fully use it without having sound and concrete software engineer...
—With the explosive use of Internet, contemporary web servers are susceptible to overloads and their services deteriorate drastically and often cause denial of services. In this ...
(m,k)-firm constraints have been used to schedule tasks in soft/firm real-time systems under overloaded conditions. In general, they are provided by application designers to guara...
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on program execution characteristics through hardware counters. However, traditionally, operating system (...
: Motivated by the problem of out-of-shelf (OOS) in retail industry and the emergence of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology, this paper investigates the impact that t...