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DFG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Formal Component Concept for the Specification of Industrial Control Systems
Abstract. Motivated by the wide acceptance of component based technologies in software development, a component concept for software engineering is applied to modeling in the field...
Benjamin Braatz, Markus Klein, Gunnar Schröte...
DFG
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Verification of PLC Programs Given as Sequential Function Charts
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widespread in the manufacturing and processing industries to realize sequential procedures and to avoid safety-critical states. For the spe...
Nanette Bauer, Sebastian Engell, Ralf Huuck, Sven ...
COMPSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Robustness Study of an Embedded Operating System for Industrial Applications
Critical industrial applications or fault tolerant applications need for operating systems (OS) which guarantee a correct and safe behaviour in spite of the appearance of errors. ...
Juan Pardo, José Carlos Campelo, Juan Jos&e...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Performance evaluation of open-source multiagent platforms
Nowadays, most multiagent platforms are internally designed as middleware and are usually implemented in Java and run on top of an operating system. This kind of design maximizes ...
Luis Mulet, Jose M. Such, Juan M. Alberola
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Your computer is already a distributed system. Why isn't your OS?
Andrew Baumann, Simon Peter, Adrian Schüpbach...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
An End to the Middle
The last fifteen years has seen a vast proliferation of middleboxes to solve all manner of persistent limitations in the Internet protocol suite. Examples include firewalls, NATs,...
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas E. Ander...
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Augmented Smartphone Applications Through Clone Cloud Execution
Smartphones enable a new, rich user experience in pervasive computing, but their hardware is still very limited in terms of computation, memory, and energy reserves, thus limiting...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Operating Systems Should Provide Transactions
Operating systems can efficiently provide system transactions to user applications, in which user-level processes can execute a series of system calls atomically and in isolation ...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Hierarchical File Systems Are Dead
For over forty years, we have assumed hierarchical file system namespaces. These namespaces were a rudimentary attempt at simple organization. As users have begun to interact with...
Margo I. Seltzer, Nicholas Murphy
HOTOS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
FLUXO: A Simple Service Compiler
In this paper, we propose FLUXO, a system that separates an Internet service's logical functionality from the architectural decisions made to support performance, scalability...
Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Livshits, Madanlal Musuv...