A supply chain network can be viewed as a network of facilities in which a customer order will flow through internal business processes such as procurement, production, and transp...
Reader preference, writer preference, and task-fair readerwriter locks are shown to cause undue blocking in multiprocessor real-time systems. A new phase-fair reader-writer lock i...
We examine how computer system problems can be derived from real application problems, with a particular focus on the relevance of some assumptions, especially those related to co...
It is often the case that safety-critical systems have to be reconfigured during operation because of issues such as changes in the system's operating environment or the fail...
—This paper discusses the design and implementation of an ultra low power embedded GPS receiver node for use in remote monitoring situations where battery life is of the utmost i...