Mode-Automata have been proposed in [11]. They introduce, in the domain-specific data-flow language Lustre for reactive systems, a new construct devoted to the expression of runn...
Traditionally, distributed computing problems have been solved by partitioning data into chunks able to be handled by commodity hardware. Such partitioning is not possible in case...
This paper describes a variant of the actor model suited to the development of multimedia systems. The actor model centers on non-overkilling concurrency and customizable constrai...
In recent years much attention has been paid to networkbased, distributed environments like text-based MUDs and MOOs for supporting collaborative work. Such environments offer a s...
In order to cope with the ever increasing complexity of todays application specific integrated circuits, a building block based design methodology is established. The system is co...