Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries between software building blocks such as ...
—In this paper, we propose a quasi-static scheduling (QSS) method applicable to actor-oriented SystemC designs. QSS determines a schedule where several static schedules are combi...
This paper discusses issues of personalization of presence services in the context of Internet Telephony. Such services take into consideration the willingness and ability of a use...
Two object-oriented programming language paradigms— dynamic, prototype-based languages and multi-method languages— provide orthogonal benefits to software engineers. These two...
Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...