Modeling systems based on semi-formal graphical formalisms, such as Statecharts, have become standard practice in the design of reactive embedded devices. Statecharts are often mor...
Context awareness is the most important research area in ubiquitous computing. In particular, for smart home, context awareness attempts to bring the best services to the home hab...
This paper focuses on the support provided by NCL (Nested Context Language) to relate objects with imperative code content and declarative hypermedia-objects (objects with declara...
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Marcelo Ferreira Moren...
Recent technologies such as the Real-Time Specification for Java promise to bring Java’s advantages to real-time systems. While these technologies have made Java more predictab...
Trevor Harmon, Martin Schoeberl, Raimund Kirner, R...
Many self-organizing and self-adaptive systems use the biologically inspired “gradient” primitive, in which each device in a network estimates its distance to the closest devi...
Jonathan Bachrach, Jacob Beal, Joshua Horowitz, Da...