Sequence Diagrams (SDs) have proven useful for describing transaction-oriented systems, and can form a basis for creating statecharts. However, distributed embedded systems require...
We consider the view maintenance problem in a web-based environment, in which clients query information from databases, stored in the form of materialized data warehouses, without...
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...
The design of secure buffer managers for database systems supporting real-time applications with firm deadlines is studied here. We first identify the design challenges and then p...
In this paper we investigate both experimentally and via simulation the monitoring of fiber link quality in a PON using optical coding technology. We use a new, simple and costeffe...
Mohammad M. Rad, Habib Fathallah, Sophie LaRochell...