Software construction has typically drawn on engineering metaphors like building bridges or cathedrals, which emphasize architecture, specification, central planning, and determin...
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The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational s...
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Air Traffic Control is an important application with demanding real-time database processing requirements. Systems that have been implemented using current approaches have typical...
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—In an attempt to increase the performance/cost ratio, large compute clusters are becoming heterogeneous at multiple levels: from asymmetric processors, to different system archi...
Real-time systems usually operate in an environment that changes continuously. These changes cause the performance of the system to vary during run time. An allocation of resource...