– Many embedded system designs usually impose (hard) read-time constraints on tasks. Thus, computing a tight upper bound of the worst case execution time (WCET) of a software is ...
System design often explores optimality of performance. What is optimal is, however, often not predefined or static in most cases, because it is affected by the context of operat...
: Mass customization has become one of the key strategies for a service provider to differentiate itself from its competitors in a highly segmented global service market. This pape...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Kincho H. Law, Shen-sheng Zhan...
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software d...