Throughout the history of human-machine systems design has had a technological bias in the sense that design for technology came first with design for humans as a distant second. O...
Faulty device drivers cause significant damage through down time and data loss. The problem can be mitigated by an improved driver development process that guarantees correctness...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Etienne Le S...
Interaction protocols for multiagent systems have been described diagrammatically in an extension of UML called AUML (Agent UML). In this paper, we show how to translate these pro...
By-wire systems have been established for several years in the area of aircraft construction and there are now approaches to utilize this technology in vehicles. The required elect...
Thomas Ringler, J. Steiner, R. Belschner, Bernd He...
We investigate a decentralised approach to committing transactions in a replicated database, under partial replication. Previous protocols either reexecute transactions entirely an...