In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
Reusable libraries are problematic for real-time software in Java. Using Java’s standard class library, for example, demands meticulous coding and testing to avoid response time...
Trevor Harmon, Martin Schoeberl, Raimund Kirner, R...
Modern multiprocessor embedded systems execute a large number of tasks on shared processors and handle their complex communications on shared communication networks. Traditional m...
Lothar Thiele, Iuliana Bacivarov, Wolfgang Haid, K...
Financial and commercial applications use decimal data and spend most of their time in decimal arithmetic. Software implementation of decimal arithmetic is typically at least 100 ...
Palette re-ordering is a well known and very effective approach for improving the compression of color indexed images. If the spatial distribution of the indexes in the image is s...
Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Rundo, Filippo Stan...