Network programming is notoriously hard to understand: one has to deal with a variety of protocols (IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP etc), concurrency, packet loss, host failure, timeouts, the c...
Recently, the extraordinarygrowth in the World Wide Web has been sweeping through business and industry. Many companies have developed or integrated their mission-critical applica...
Chien-Hung Liu, David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia, Chih-...
In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing req...
Although peripheral devices come out at a frantic pace and require fast releases of drivers, little progress has been made to improve the development of drivers. Too often, this d...
—Before designing safety- or mission-critical real-time systems, a specification of the required behavior of the system should be produced and reviewed by domain experts. After ...