The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
Scalability is widely recognized as an important software quality, but it is a quality that historically has lacked a consistent and systematic treatment. To address this problem,...
Leticia Duboc, Emmanuel Letier, David S. Rosenblum...
Execution time estimation of software at source-level is nowadays a crucial phase of the system design flow, especially for portable devices and real-time systems. From a source-...
Carlo Brandolese, William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice...
We present a framework that will enable scalable analysis and design of graceful degradation in distributed embedded systems. We define graceful degradation in terms of utility. A...
Security in the access to web contents and the interaction with web sites is becoming one of the most important issues in Internet. Servers need to provide certain levels of secur...