A reward-based task typically consists of a mandatory part that must be accomplished before the given deadline, and an optional part that is associated with rewards for partial co...
We address the problem of providing compositional hard real-time guarantees in a hierarchy of schedulers. We first propose a resource model to characterize a periodic resource al...
This paper deals with the IEC 61499 standard. A function block (FB) is an event triggered component and an application is a distributed FBs network on several devices. We consider...
—We propose FIT, a flexible, lightweight, and real-time scheduling system for wireless sensor platforms. There are three salient features of FIT. First, its two-tier hierarchical...
Wei Dong, Chun Chen, Xue Liu, Kougen Zheng, Rui Ch...
This paper introduces the notion of transparent distribution of real time software components. Transparent distribution means that (1) the functional and temporal behavior of a sy...
Emilia Farcas, Claudiu Farcas, Wolfgang Pree, Jose...