The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...
Data flow process networks are a good model of computation for streaming multimedia applications incorporating audio, video and/or graphics streams. Process networks are concurre...
In the domain of hard real-time systems, which language is better: C++ or the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ)? Although standard Java provides a more productive programmin...
Cloud computing has emerged as a preferred platform for deploying scalable web-applications. With the growing scale of these applications and the data associated with them, scalab...
Several high-level programming languages for programming agents and robots have been proposed in recent years. Each of these languages has its own features and merits. It is still...