While synchrony and asynchrony are two distinct concepts of concurrency theory, effective and formally defined embedded system design methodologies usually mix the best from both...
Abstract— Smartocracy is a social software system for collective decision making. The system is composed of a social network that links individuals to those they trust to make go...
Marko A. Rodriguez, Daniel J. Steinbock, Jennifer ...
With the evolution of technology, Grids cannot be considered any more solely as a federation of a modest number of powerful cluster computers. Trends show that future Grids will i...
We present a quality management method for multimedia applications. The method takes as input an application software composed of actions. The execution times of actions are unkno...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Joseph Sifa...
As the use of complex grid middleware becomes widespread and more facilites are offered by these pieces of software, distributed Grid applications are becoming more and more popul...