The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particula...
In 1873 Francis Galton had constructed a simple mechanical device where a ball is dropped vertically through a harrow of pins that deflect the ball sideways as it falls. Galton c...
Self-reconfigurable robots are built from modules, which are autonomously able to change the way they are connected. Such a robot can, through this self-reconfiguration process, c...
In this paper we present the design of a modern course in cluster computing and large-scale data processing. The defining differences between this and previously published designs...
Aaron Kimball, Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Christophe...
We present a novel technique that automatically alerts authors of requirements to the presence of potentially dangerous ambiguities. We first establish the notion of nocuous ambig...
Francis Chantree, Bashar Nuseibeh, Anne N. De Roec...