Critical to any successful performance improvement initiative is to achieve a state of continuous or institutionalized improvement. Some improvement can happen quickly, but long-t...
In the last few years the embedded systems design discipline required new design methodologies and new specification languages to support system engineers in developing heterogen...
UML through its profiling mechanism is well adapted for the modeling of real-time software requirements and designs. It is becoming the de facto standard. On the other hand, seve...
Many interesting applications using mobile ad-hoc networks are possible if quality-of-service (QoS) can be effectively supported. Towards that end, this paper proposes a method ba...
The fault tolerance provided by FT-CORBA is basically static, that is, once the fault tolerance properties of a group of replicated processes defined, they cannot be modified in r...