Key challenges in distributed real-time embedded (DRE) system developments include safe composition of system components and mapping the functional specifications onto the target...
Engineering individual components of a multi-agent system and their interactions is a complex and error-prone task in urgent need of methods and tools. Prototyping is a valuable t...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Carles Sierra, Marc Es...
Performance analysis of microprocessors is a critical step in defining the microarchitecture, prior to register-transfer-level (RTL) design. In complex chip multiprocessor systems...
Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi, Indira Nair, Gero Dittman...
The growing adoption of reconfigurable architectures opens new implementation alternatives and creates new design challenges. In the case of dynamically reconfigurable architectur...
Endoscopic surgery, while offering considerable gains for the patient, has created new difficulties for the surgeon. One problem is the fulcrum effect, which causes the movement o...