—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
OOP style requires programmers to organize their code according to objects (or nouns, using natural language as a metaphor), causing a program’s actions (verbs) to become scatte...
Most of today’s distributed computing systems in the field do not support the migration of execution entities among computing nodes during runtime. The relatively static associa...
The main goal to be answered by this Ph.D. thesis is whether there is a potential for a successful and powerful application of agile methods and related techniques to embedded syst...
Skinning geometry effectively continues to be one of the more challenging and time consuming aspects of character setup. While anatomic and physically based approaches to skinning...