In this paper, we identify the different roles and contract types which are important in providing Quality of Service (QoS) properties of component-based systems. A surprising res...
Abstract. Component based design is a new methodology for the construction of distributed systems and applications. In this new setting, a system is built by the assembly of (pre)-...
The Super Iterator pattern, like the standard Iterator pattern, traverses an unknown data structure without exposing that structure. With the standard Iterator pattern, clients mu...
—Current FPGAs provide a powerful platform for network processing applications. The main challenge is the exploitation of the reconfiguration to increase the performance of the s...
The increasing prominence of portable systems and the need to limit power consumption and hence, heat dissipation in very high density VLSI chips have led to rapid and innovative ...