The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
The need for a design language that is rigorous but accessible and intuitive is often at odds with the formal and mathematical nature of languages used for analysis. UML and Petri ...
Although many recent advances have been made in hardware synthesis techniques from software programming languages such as C, the performance of synthesized hardware commonly suffe...
In this paper we describe the MIThril 2003 wearable computing research platform. MIThril 2003 is a proven, accessible architecture that combines inexpensive, commodity hardware, a...
Richard W. DeVaul, Michael Sung, Jonathan Gips, Al...
Generic libraries, such as the C++ Standard Template Library (STL), provide flexible, high-performance algorithms and data types, along with functional specifications and performa...