Adaptive, or self-aware, computing has been proposed to help application programmers confront the growing complexity of multicore software development. However, existing approache...
Henry Hoffmann, Jonathan Eastep, Marco D. Santambr...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
Understanding the detailed behavior of an operating system is crucial for making informed design decisions. But such an understanding is very hard to achieve, due to the increasin...
Yoav Etsion, Dan Tsafrir, Scott Kirkpatrick, Dror ...
A circuit or circuit component that does not contain any spurious switching activity, i.e., activity that is not required by its specified functionality, is called perfectly power...
This paper presents a language dedicated to the description of the software architecture of complex embedded control systems. The language relies on the synchronous approach but e...