Abstract. One of the reasons for attending to agent technology is the evergrowing complexity of information systems and the increasing difficulty to foresee and plan for all potent...
Software systems are becoming heterogeneous: instead of a small number of large programs from well-established sources, a user's desktop may now consist of many smaller compo...
Many industrial applications mandate the use of a timetriggered paradigm and consequently the use of off-line scheduling for reasons such as predictability, certification, cost, o...
Even though a thorough system specification improves the quality of the design , it is not sufficient to guarantee that a system will satisfy its reliability targets. Within this ...
In this paper, we develop a new service to support optimally ensured user interactions with minimum latency in interactive distributed multimedia presentation environments. The no...