At every stage in physical design, engineers are faced with many different objectives and tools to develop, optimize, and evaluate their design. Each choice of a tool or an objec...
The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...
Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) have been recently proposed as a promising solution to complex on-chip communication problems. The lack of an unified representation of applications and ar...
Database replication based on group communication systems has recently been proposed as an efficient and resilient solution for large-scale data management. However, its evaluati...