Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...
Open real-time systems provide for co-hosting hard-, soft- and non-real-time applications. Microkernel-based designs in addition allow for these applications to be mutually protec...
Reflection and automated introspection of a design in system level design frameworks are seen as necessities for the CAD tools to manipulate the designs within the tools. These f...
Frederic Doucet, Sandeep K. Shukla, Rajesh K. Gupt...
The wide diffusion of reliable Internet is pushing two key novelties in the conception of modern software applications: the Software as a Service paradigm and the idea of the Inte...
Luciano Baresi, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Sam Guinea, S...