Thread pools are often used as a pattern to increase the throughput and responsiveness of software systems. Implementations of thread pools may differ considerably from each other...
Frank S. de Boer, Immo Grabe, Mohammad Mahdi Jagho...
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
During its lifetime, embedded systems go through multiple changes to their runtime architecture. That is, threads, processes, and processor are added or removed to/from the softwa...
During software maintenance tasks, developers often spend an important amount of effort investigating source code. This effort can be reduced if tools are available to help develo...
Networked appliances can simplify our lives, but interacting with them can be difficult in itself. KitchenSense is an early prototype of a networked kitchen full of sensors that u...