This paper describes an infrastructure that enables transparent development of image processing software for parallel computers. The infrastructure’s main component is an image ...
This paper focuses on the challenge of building technical agents that act flexibly in modern computing and information environments. Flexibility is approached in terms of both cogn...
Improvements in microprocessor and networking performance have made networks of workstations a very attractive platform for high-end parallel and distributed computing. However, t...
Traditionally, designers organize software system as active end-points (e.g. applications) linked by passive infrastructures (e.g. networks). Increasingly, however, networks and i...
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Jon Howell, Anthon...
el of abstraction by integrating a high-level estimation step. This results in a design loop which is tight led on high level of abstraction (called estimation loop in figure 1). ...